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- —— (2022). If I Survive You . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9781982191818.
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| Born | Houston, Texas, United States |
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| Notable works | If I Survive You (2022) |
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Jonathan Escoffery is an American writer. His debut novel, If I Survive You , was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, among other honors. The novel was well received by critics with reviews applauding Escoffery's humor, narrative style, and exploration of identity in the immigrant experience. [1]
Escoffery was born in Houston, Texas, to Jamaican parents and grew up in Miami, Florida. [2] Escoffery graduated from Florida International University and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota. [2] [3] As of 2022, he was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. [3]
Escoffery has cited Sandra Cisneros, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen as literary influences. [2] He worked as the program coordinator for the writing center Grubstreet in Boston, where he started the Boston Writers of Color group. [2] His short story "Under the Ackee Tree", which was published in The Paris Review, was awarded the Plimpton Prize. [4]
In 2020, Escoffery received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [3] [5]
In September 2022, If I Survive You was the Belletrist Book Club pick. [6] Booklist included it on their 2022 "Booklist Editors' Choice list for adult books", [7] as well as their 2023 list of the "Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts". [8]
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. | |
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| 2020 | "Under the Ackee Tree" | Plimpton Prize | — | Won | [3] [9] |
| 2022 | If I Survive You | National Book Award | Fiction | Longlist | [10] [11] |
| National Book Critics Circle Award | John Leonard Prize | Shortlisted | [12] [13] | ||
| 2023 | Aspen Words Literary Prize | — | Longlist | [14] [15] | |
| Booker Prize | — | Shortlisted | [16] [17] | ||
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | — | Shortlisted | [18] [19] | ||
| Southern Book Prize | — | Shortlisted | [20] | ||
| Gordon Burn Prize | — | Shortlisted | [21] | ||
| 2024 | International Dublin Literary Award | — | Shortlisted | [22] | |
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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award. With its motto "All the best stories are true", the prize covers current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. The competition is open to authors of any nationality whose work is published in the UK in English. The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year. Formerly named after English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, the award was renamed in 2015 after Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm and the primary sponsor. Since 2016, the annual dinner and awards ceremony has been sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
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The Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize is an annual award presented by the New Literary Project to recognize mid-career writers of fiction. "Mid-career writer" is defined by the project as "an author who has published at least two notable books of fiction, and who has yet to receive capstone recognition such as a Pulitzer or a MacArthur." The prize, which carries a monetary award of $50,000, was established in 2017 and is administered by the New Literary Project, a collaboration of the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation of Lafayette, California and the Department of English of the University of California, Berkeley.
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The Aspen Words Literary Prize, established in 2018, is an annual literary award presented by Aspen Words, a literary center in Aspen, Colorado. The prize is presented to an author for "an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.” Winners receive a US$35,000 prize.
If I Survive You is the debut book by Jonathan Escoffery, published on September 6, 2022 by MCD Books. It is a collection of eight interlinked short stories that follow the struggles of an immigrant family from Jamaica who build a new home in Miami. The story's main character is Trelawny, an American-born son of immigrants who grapples with identity, familial and cultural issues through various phases of adolescence and adulthood.
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