Peter Orner

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Peter Orner
Born
California Book Awards (silver medal)
RelativesEric Orner (brother)
Website
peterorner.com

Peter Orner is an American

Fulbright in Namibia[2] teaching at the University of Namibia
.

Early life and education

Orner was born in

Highland Park, IL.[3] He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990. He later earned a Juris Doctor degree from Northeastern University School of Law, and an MFA
from the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Career

In 2001 Orner published his first book, Esther Stories,.

Pen Hemingway Prize, the Young Lion's Award from the New York Public Library, and was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Of Esther Stories, The New York Times wrote, "Orner doesn't just bring his characters to life, he gives them souls."[4]

In 2006, Orner published his first novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, which was set in

Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship
in 2007 and 2008.

Orner served as editor of two non-fiction books, Underground America (2008) and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (2010), both published by

California Book Award
winner.

In 2013,

Little Brown released two books by Orner: a new edition of Esther Stories (with an introduction by Marilynne Robinson
) and a new collection of stories, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge.

Orner's stories and essays have appeared in

Southern Review. His work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and twice won a Pushcart Prize
.

Orner is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at

Charles University in Prague
, Czech Republic.

A film version of one of Orner's stories, The Raft, with a screenplay by Orner and director Rob Jones, and starring

Edward Asner
has played a number of film festivals.

In 2016, Orner released a collection of essays, Am I Alone Here?, which was named a finalist for the

National Book Critics Circle Awards[5] in their Criticism category.[6][7] The book has garnered positive reviews in The New York Times,[8] the New Yorker,[9]
and a number of other publications.

Orner's newest collection of stories, Maggie Brown & Others, was released on July 2, 2019, and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from the likes of the New York Times,[10] Washington Post[11] and Chicago Tribune.[12]

Personal

His older brother is

Iowa City, and a sewer department worker for the city of Highland Park, Illinois
, where he once worked side-by-side with Alex Gordon, a Chicago-based journalist and author of College: The Best Five Years of Your Life.

Honors

Bibliography

Short Fiction[13]

  • Esther Stories (2001, re-issued 2103 with new foreword by Marilynne Robinson)
  • Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (2013)
  • Maggie Brown & Others" (2019)

Novels

  • The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006)
  • Love and Shame and Love (2010)

Essays

  • Am I Alone Here? Notes of Reading to Live and Living to Read (2016)
  • Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin (2023)

Nonfiction

  • Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Editor) (2008)
  • Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives NARRATIVES OF ZIMBABWEAN LIVES (Co-Editor) (2011)
  • Lavil: Life, Love and Death in Port-au-Prince (Co-Editor) (2017)

References

  1. ^ "Peter M. Orner". 11 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Peter Orner | Fulbright Scholar Program".
  3. ^ a b c "Review: Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner". Toronto Star, John Freeman Jan. 28, 2012
  4. ^ Margot Livesey (November 4, 2001). "The Past Is Another Small Town". The New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (17 January 2017). "National Book Critics Circle announces finalists, but misses one of the biggest novels of 2016". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  6. ^ "Reading into connections". Toronto Star, December 3, E24.
  7. ^ "AM I ALONE HERE?". Kirkus Reviews, Aug. 21st, 2016
  8. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  9. ^ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  10. ^ Garner, Dwight (July 2019). "In Very Short Stories, a Major Writer Celebrates Stalled Lives". The New York Times.
  11. OCLC 1330888409
    .
  12. ^ "Writing is strong in Peter Orner's magical new story collection, 'Maggie Brown & Others' - Chicago Tribune". Chicago Tribune. 15 August 2019.
  13. ^ "About".

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