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David Leavitt


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David Leavitt has written several highly acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including THE LOST LANGUAGE OF CRANES, which was made into a BBC film. His recently published collection of novellas, ARKANSAS, was hailed by the INDEPENDENT as 'a literary triumph'.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Lost Language of Cranes (1986)
   Equal Affections (1989)
   While England Sleeps (1993)
   The Page Turner (1998)
   Martin Bauman (2000)
   Florence (2002)
   The Body of Jonah Boyd (2004)
   The Indian Clerk (2007)
   Two Hotel Francforts (2013)
   Shelter in Place (2020)
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Collections
   Family Dancing (1984)
   A Place I've Never Been (1990)
   Arkansas (1996)
   The Marble Quilt (2001)
   Collected Stories (2003)
   Stories of David Leavitt (2005)
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Anthologies edited
   The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) (with Mark Mitchell)
   The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (2003) (with Mark Mitchell)
   23 Great Stories (2013)
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Non fiction show
 
David Leavitt recommends
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Harry Sylvester Bird (2022)
Chinelo Okparanta
"Chinelo Okparanta is one of our finest writers, and Harry Sylvester Bird is her finest book yet: funny, moving, and (in the best sense of the word) incendiary."
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Blooms of Darkness (2010)
Aharon Appelfeld
"Like Anne Frank’s diary - a work to which it will draw justified comparison - Blooms of Darkness records a brutal process of education [through which] Appelfeld reveals his compassion, his wisdom, and his restraint . . . Majestic and humane."

Anthologies containing stories by David Leavitt
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Sheila Heti
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1999)
edited by
Michael Martone and Lex Williford

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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1985) : Family Dancing
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2008) : The Indian Clerk
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2009) : The Indian Clerk


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