Anthony Marra is a young but already renowned American writer, the winner of a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Narrative Prize. His debut novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, a story about Chechnya of the 90s, was highly acclaimed by U.S. critics, who compared it to works of Leo Tolstoy. The book became a bestseller and won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a shortlist selection for the Flaherty-Dunnan first novel prize. In addition, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012.
His latest novel The Tsar of Love and Techno includes a collection of lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art, that take place in Siberia of the 1930s, Chechnya of the 1990s and present day Moscow.
Anthony Marra received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, CA.
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