- Nic Pizzolatto
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Nic Pizzolatto (b. in New Orleans, LA) is an American novelist, short-story and screenwriter.
The author of two books, he has taught fiction and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Chicago, and DePauw University. In 2010 he left academia and now lives with his family in Los Angeles.
His first two short stories, "Between Here and the Yellow Sea" and "Ghost Birds," sold simultaneously to the Atlantic Monthly. Other stories by him have appeared in The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and several other publications. [1] In 2006, he published a story collection with MacAdam/Cage.
His first novel, Galveston, was published by Scribner's in June, 2010. It was translated and published in France by Editions Belfond, Hong Kong, and in Italy by Mondadori, as part of their Strade Blu line.
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Awards
Between Here and the Yellow Sea was long-listed for the 2006 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and named one of the top five fiction debuts of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine. [1] He was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2004. He's received an honorable mention from the Pushcart Prize, and his story "Wanted Man" is included in Best American Mystery Stories 2009. Galveston won third prize in the 2010 Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for best first novel. It won the 2011 Spur Award for Best First Novel from the Western Writers of America.
In France, Galveston was awarded the Prix du Premier Roman étranger (Best Foreign First Novel) by the French Academy.
Works
- Between Here and the Yellow Sea (stories), MacAdam/Cage. May, 2006
- Galveston (novel), Scribner. June, 2010
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External links
Categories:- American short story writers
- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from New Orleans, Louisiana
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- University of Chicago faculty
- DePauw University faculty
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