Naeem Murr

Naeem Murr

Naeem Murr (born March 1965) is a British-born novelist and short story writer of Lebanese descent. He is the author of three novels acclaimed for their dark portraiture and stark, original prose. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife, poet Averill Curdy[1].

Biography

Born in London, Murr moved to the United States in his early twenties and has been a writer-in-residence at numerous universities, including Western Michigan University, the University of Missouri, and Northwestern University and was a Stanford University Creative Writing Fellow. His first novel, The Boy, concerns a father's search for a strange orphan he adopted into his family who has fled to live in a slum as a prostitute. It was a New York Times Notable Book. A second novel, The Genius of the Sea, explores the fears and failures of a social-worker coming to terms with his life by talking with a man who now occupies his dead mother's apartment. His most recent book The Perfect Man was published in 2007 to critical acclaim. The novel was awarded The Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book of Europe/South Asia, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Set in the 1950s, The Perfect Man details the life of an unwanted boy sent first from India to London, and then to small-town Missouri, and the complex web of relationships he develops as he matures.

Murr has received many awards for his writing, including a Lambda Literary Award, a Lannan Residency Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship.

Bibliography

  • The Boy (1998)
  • The Genius of the Sea (2003)
  • The Perfect Man (2007) (UK publication in 2006)

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Murr — may refer to: Contents 1 Geography 2 Fiction 3 Economy 4 Science 5 Surname …   Wikipedia

  • Naim — For other uses, see Naim (disambiguation). Naim Pronunciation /ˈnɑːʔiːm/ Gender Male Origin Word/Name Arabic Meaning …   Wikipedia

  • Middlebury College — Coordinates: 44°00′32″N 73°10′38″W / 44.00889°N 73.17722°W / 44.00889; 73.17722 …   Wikipedia

  • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference — The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, called by The New Yorker, the oldest and most prestigious writers conference in the country was founded in 1926. It is held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury,… …   Wikipedia

  • PEN/Open Book — (formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award)[1] is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry.… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2007 — 2007 U.S. and Canadian Fellows= * Daniel Alarcón, Writer, Oakland, Califorcnia; Distinguished Visiting Writer, Mills College: Fiction. * Rick Altman, Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa: Classical Hollywood sound. * …   Wikipedia

  • Lebanese British — Infobox Ethnic group group = Lebanese British caption =Notable Lebanese Britons: Mika, Samia Smith poptime = Estimated at: 80,000 100,000 8% of Arab British population 0.15% of the UK s population popplace = London, South East England, Birmingham …   Wikipedia

  • World Literary Prizes 2007 — ▪ Table World Literary Prizes 2007 All prizes are annual and were awarded in 2007 unless otherwise stated. Currency equivalents as of July 1, 2007, were as follows: €1 = $1.355; £1 = $2.009; Can$1 = $0.939; ¥1 = $0.008; SKr 1 = $0.146; DKr 1 = $0 …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”