Rivka Galchen

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Rivka Galchen
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Galchen speaking at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Born (1976-04-19) April 19, 1976 (age 47)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter
NationalityCanadian, American
Education Princeton University (AB)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (MD)
Columbia University (MFA)
Notable worksAtmospheric Disturbances (2008)
Notable awardsWilliam J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction

Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a contributor of journalism and essays to The New Yorker magazine.

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Early life

Galchen was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Israeli academics. [1] When she was in preschool, her parents relocated to the United States. [2] She grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-chen, was a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and her mother was a computer programmer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. [3] [4]

Education

Galchen received her M.D. from Mount Sinai in 2003. [5] After medical school, she earned a MFA in 2006 from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham fellow. [5]

Career

In 2006, Galchen received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers. [5]

Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in May 2008. [6] [7] [8] The novel was a finalist for the Mercantile Library's 2008 John Sargent, Sr., First Novel Prize, [9] the Canadian Writers' Trust's 2008 Fiction Prize, [10] and the 2008 Governor General's Award. [11] [12]

Galchen teaches writing at Columbia University. [13] In 2010, The New Yorker chose her as one of its "20 Under 40". [14]

Galchen served as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow for the Spring 2011 term at the American Academy in Berlin. [15] In 2015, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. [16]

Galchen's short-story collection American Innovations was published in 2014. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] It was longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize [22] and received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. [23] Each story is based on a well-known short story by another author, but switches the narrator from male to female and changes other elements. [1]

In 2016, Galchen published Little Labors, a book of essays about motherhood. [24]

In 2021, Galchen published her second novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch. [25] The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. [26]

Galchen writes for several national magazines, including The New Yorker, [27] Harper's Magazine , [28] and The New York Times Magazine . [29] She contributes criticism and essays to The London Review of Books. [30]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kellogg, Carolyn (2014-05-01). "Rivka Galchen talks about putting a female twist on iconic stories". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  2. ↑ "Heartbreak and loss lie beneath fantastic tale". The Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  3. ↑ "Rivka Galchen, M.D. from Oklahoma Is the Latest Successor to Pynchon". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 2013-01-30. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
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  5. 1 2 3 "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2006". Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  6. ↑ Schillinger, Liesl (July 13, 2008). "Book Review | 'Atmospheric Disturbances,' by Rivka Galchen" – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ↑ Wood, James (June 16, 2008). "She's Not Herself" – via www.newyorker.com.
  8. ↑ The novel features a character with her father's name, Tzvi Gal-Chen, a fictional professor of meteorology and a fellow of the fictional Royal Academy of Meteorology. See "She's Not Herself: A first novel about marriage and madness". The New Yorker. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  9. ↑ "2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize Finalists". The Mercantile Library for Fiction. Archived from the original on 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  10. ↑ "2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists". The Writers' Trust. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
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  12. ↑ "Past Winners and Finalists". Governor General’s Literary Awards. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
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  25. ↑ Hillary Kelly, "Rivka Galchen’s Unsettling Powers". Vulture , June 7, 2021.
  26. ↑ Deborah Dundas, "‘May the force be with you’: Five finalists for the first Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize announced". Toronto Star , September 29, 2021.
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