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This Is Why They Hate Us by recent alumnus Aaron H. Aceves ‘20 was acquired by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for spring 2022 publication. This is Aceves’s debut novel.
Alumna Alexandra Kleeman ’12, who earlier this year was awarded the Berlin Prize, has now also received the equally prestigious and highly competitive Rome Prize, which offers fellows the opportunity to stay in Rome for four to seven months.
This week, it was announced that the novel The New Wilderness by alumna Diane Cook ’12 made the longlist for the 2020 Man Booker Prize.
Nothing Can Hurt You, the recent debut novel by alumna Nicola Maye Goldberg ’18, was published to very positive reviews in June.
Recent alumnus Francisco González ’19 won the prestigious 2020 Gulf Coast Prize for his short story “Clean Teen.”
Want, a novel by Adjunct Assistant Professor Lynn Steger Strong ’14, headlined a Vulture review as “the summer book I couldn’t put down.”
Destination Wedding by alumna Diksha Basu ’14 will be available June 30.
The Margot Affair, the debut novel by Alumna Sanaë Lemoine ’15, will be published on June 16 through Hogarth Press.
Two books by members of the Columbia community are featured in Buzzfeed’s ”29 Summer Books You Won't Be Able To Put Down”.
Sorry for Your Trouble, his fourteenth work of fiction, is “a book of short stories about Irish Americans—or, Americans in Ireland.”
Monique Truong, an adjunct associate professor in the writing program, recently won the 2020 John Gardner Fiction Book Award for her novel The Sweetest Fruits.
Writing alumna Jayme Koszyn ’18 was named a finalist in Fish Publications Flash Fiction Short List for her flash fiction short story, “In the Here and Now.” Out of the 1,238 stories submitted, only fifty made it to the short-list.