- Julie Orringer
Julie Orringer (born
June 12 ,1973 ), is an American author born inMiami, Florida . Her first book, "How to Breathe Underwater ", was published in September 2003 byKnopf Publishing Group .Overview
Orringer is the Helen Hertzog Zell Professor of
Creative Writing at theUniversity of Michigan . She is a graduate ofCornell University and theIowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow atStanford University . Her stories have appeared in "TheParis Review ",McSweeney’s , "Ploughshares ", "", "ThePushcart Prize Anthology", "The Best New American Voices", and "The Best American Non-Required Reading". She received the Paris Review's Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, "TheYale Review " Editors' Prize, Ploughshares'Cohen Award , the Northern California Book Award, and the Anne and Robert Cowan Award from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. She was the recipient of a 2004-5 NEA grant for her current project, a novel set inBudapest andParis before and during theSecond World War .Literary Works
* (2003)
How to Breathe Underwater contains nine short stories, many of them about characters submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general. In "Pilgrims," a band of motherless children torment each other onThanksgiving day. In "The Isabel Fish," the sole survivor of a drowning accident takes upscuba diving . In "When She is Old and I am Famous," a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones," the failure of religious and moral codes--to protect, to comfort, to offer solace--is seen through the eyes of a group of Orthodox Jewish adolescents discovering the irresistible power of their sexuality.* "
How to Breathe Underwater " is a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Northern California Book Award.Translations
French
* "Comment respirer sous l'eau", 2005
German
* "Unter Wasser atmen", 2005
Italian
* "Quando ho imparato a respirare sott'acqua", 2004, ISBN 88-7684-792-8
Dutch
* "Ademhalen onder water"
Japanese
* "How to Breathe Underwater," 2006Forthcoming translations:
* Norwegian
* Portuguese
* Spanish
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