Anthony Marra

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Anthony Marra
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Reading at the 2016 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born1984
Washington, D.C.
OccupationWriter
EducationLandon School
Alma mater University of Southern California
Iowa Writers Workshop
Genre Historical fiction, fiction, short fiction
Notable works A Constellation of Vital Phenomena , The Tsar of Love and Techno , Mercury Pictures Presents
Website
anthonymarra.net

Anthony Marra (born 1984) is an American fiction writer. Marra has won numerous awards for his short stories, as well as his first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which was a New York Times best seller. [1]

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Personal life

Marra was born in Washington, D.C., [2] attended high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and has lived in Eastern Europe, though he now resides in Oakland, California. [3] [4]

Education

Marra attended the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland [5] before attending the University of Southern California where he earned with bachelor's degree in creative writing. [6] He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, [7] where he also taught as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. [3]

Marra has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation [8] and the National Endowment for the Arts. [2] [9]

Writing

Marra has contributed pieces to The Atlantic , [10] Narrative Magazine , [11] Granta, [12] The Rumpus, [13] New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. [14]

Literary awards

YearWorkAwardCategoryResultRef
2010"Chechnya" Pushcart Prize —Winner [8]
Narrative Prize—Winner [8]
2012— Whiting Award —Winner [15] [16]
2013 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award FictionWinner [17] [18]
California Book Award First FictionWinner [19]
Goodreads Choice Award FictionNominee [19]
National Book Award Fiction Nominee [1]
National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize Winner [20]
Booklist Editors' Choice Adult BooksSelection [21]
New York Times Notable Book of the Year —Selection [22]
2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence FictionLonglist [23]
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award FictionWinner [24] [25]
The Athens Prize for LiteratureΠεριοδικό (δέ)καταWinner [18]
Booklist 's Notable Books—Selection [26]
Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction AwardFictionWinner [20]
Dayton Literary Peace Prize FictionFinalist [27]
Indies Choice Book Award Adult DebutWinner [28]
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize —Shortlist [29]
Young Lions Fiction Award —Finalist [30]
2015 International Dublin Literary Award —Longlist [20]
2016"The Grozny Tourist Bureau" National Magazine Award FictionWinner [31]
2017— Granta 's Best of Young American Novelists—Selection [32]
The Tsar of Love and Techno Literature.gr Phrase of the Year Prize—Winner [33]
2018 Simpson Family Literary Prize —Winner [34]
[ when? ]SelfJeanette Haien Ballard Writer's Prize—Winner [2]

Bibliography

Books

Short stories

Essays

Contributions

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