The O. Henry Prize Stories #100th Anniversary Edition

2019

Laura Furman

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Alfred A. Knopf
10 September 2019

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: The O. Henry Prize Collection

Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original.

Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated names and new, emerging voices. Their stories evoke lives both near and distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica, Houston, and Hawaii to a Turkish coal mine and a drought-ridden Northwestern farm, and feature an engaging array of characters, including Laotian refugees, a Colombian kidnap victim, an eccentric Irish schoolteacher, a woman haunted by a house that cleans itself, and a strangely long-lived rabbit. The uniformly breathtaking stories are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

List of 2019 winners-

Tessa Hadley

John Keeble

Moira McCavana

Rachel Kondo

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Stephanie Reents

Alexia Arthurs

Valerie O'Riordan

Patricia Engel

Kenan Orhan

Sarah Hall

Bryan Washington

Isabella Hammad

Weike Wang

Caoilinn Hughes

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Liza Ward

Doua Thao

Alexander MacLeod

John Edgar Wideman

Prize Jurors 2019- Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapynar

By: Laura Furman
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 303g
ISBN: 9780525565536
ISBN 10: 0525565531
Series: The O. Henry Prize Collection
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

LAURA FURMAN's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and other magazines. She is the founding editor of the highly regarded American Short Fiction (three-time finalist for the American Magazine Award). A former professor at the University of Texas, she lives in Austin. JUROR BIOS- LYNN FREED was born and raised in South Africa. The author of six novels and many widely anthologized stories and essays, she teaches at the University of California, Davis. ELIZABETH STROUT is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, My Name Is Lucy Barton, and Amy and Isabelle. A winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, she has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. LARA VAPNYAR moved from Moscow to Brooklyn in 1994. She is the author of three novels and two story collections and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.