Pauls Toutonghi

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Pauls Harijs Toutonghi
Born1976 (age 4748)
Seattle, Washington
Occupation
  • Academic
  • writer
Alma mater
Years active2000—present
Notable awards Pushcart Prize, 2000
Children2
Website
paulstoutonghi.com

Pauls Harijs Toutonghi (born 1976) [1] is a first-generation American fiction and non-fiction writer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, [1] to immigrant parents. His mother emigrated from Latvia, [2] his father emigrated from Egypt and was of Syrian descent. [3] [4] [5]

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His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books in 2006. [6] His second, Evel Knievel Days, was published by Random House/Crown in 2012. [7]

Red Weather was widely—and favorably—reviewed. [8] Toutonghi has published work in Sports Illustrated , The Burnside Review, Glimmer Train , The Boston Review , One Story Magazine, and The New Yorker . [9] His story, "Regeneration" won a Pushcart Prize in 2000. [10] His 2016 non-fiction narrative, Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home, was the source for the 2023 Netflix film, Dog Gone . [11]

Toutonghi received his MFA in poetry from Cornell University in 2003, followed by a PhD in English Literature in 2006. After his first novel was published, he moved from Brooklyn, New York to Portland, Oregon, where he now teaches as a Professor of English at Lewis and Clark College, specializing in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing. [12]

Works

Fiction

Short stories

  • Regeneration. The Boston Review, 2000 [13]
  • Homecoming. The Boston Review, 2001 [14]
  • Live Cargo. Livingston Press, 2003 [15]

Novels

  • Red Weather. Random House, 2006 [16]
  • Evel Knievel Days. Random House, 2012 [17]
  • The Refugee Ocean. Simon & Schuster, 2023 [18]

Non-fiction

Books

  • Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home. Knopf, 2016 [19]

Essays

Personal life

He is the father of twins. His sister, Annette Toutonghi, [21] is a professional actor. His father, Joseph Toutonghi, died in December 2017. [3]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Toutonghi, Pauls. 9 Sencu Iela The Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 85 No.1, Winter 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
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  14. Toutonghi, Pauls. Homecoming The Boston Review, April 1, 2001. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  15. ISBN   1931982198
  16. ISBN   030733676X
  17. ISBN   030738215X
  18. ISBN   1668007436
  19. ISBN   1799994147
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  21. Munro, Ilse (September 7, 2011). "On Being Invisible". Little Patuxent Review. Retrieved December 23, 2023.