Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972, and came to the United States seven years later. His memoir, Little Failure (2014) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was selected as one of the best books of the year by over 45 news magazines and journals around the world. Shteyngart is also the author of the novels Lake Success (2018), Super Sad True Love Story (2010), Absurdistan (2006) and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002). His work has been translated into 29 languages. Super Sad True Love Story won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by over 40 news journals and magazines around the world. Absurdistan was chosen as one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Time. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Esquire, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.
Gary Shteyngart
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January 24, 2022
Read more in The Guardian
In an age of catastrophe, humour is more important than ever, argues the satirical author.
October 27, 2021
Read more in The New York Times
Shteyngart’s recent appearance on WNYC’s Get Lit with All Of It on January 31, 2022, hosted by Alison Stewart, was a refreshingly reader-oriented stop on the tour of events for his latest novel, Our Country Friends.
Art, Friends, and Watches: Gary Shteyngart In Conversation with Fred Savage
“Our Country Friends” follows eight characters who gather in a house and fall in and out of love and friendship.
Our Country Friends by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart was released by Random House on November 2, 2021.
We recently spoke with novelist and Associate Professor of Writing Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, Little Failure, and Lake Success, which the BBC called “biting, edgy, often hilarious.”
Our Country Friends, by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart, is among the titles shortlisted for this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
“My Gentile Region,” an essay by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart, has been included in this year’s Best American Essays collection.