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Walter Abish (December 24, 1931 – May 28, 2022) was an Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories. He was conferred the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship six years later.
Alphabetical Africa is a constrained writing experiment by Walter Abish. It is written in the form of a novel. Writing in Esquire, Harold Bloom put it on a list of 20th century novels that will endure. [1] A paperback edition was issued in New York by New Directions Publishing in 1974 with ISBN 0-8112-0533-9. It was still in print in 2004.
How German Is It (Wie Deutsch ist es) is a novel by Walter Abish, published in 1980.It received PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981. It is most often classified as a postmodern work of fiction.
It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year. The journal, edited from its inception to 2010 by LIU Post English professor and poet Martin Tucker, helped launch the careers of Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux and Walter Abish. Work that has appeared in Confrontation has been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Short ...
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", [a] is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are ...
Walter Abish (1931–2022, Austria/US, f) Chris van Abkoude (1880–1960, Netherlands/US, ch), pseudonym Charles Winters; Paul Ableman (1927–2006, England, d/f) Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi (1938–2015, Egypt, p/ch) Abraham Aboab (c. 1560–1642, Portugal/Italy, nf) Josette Abondio (born 1949, Ivory Coast, f/ch) Marguerite Abouet (born 1971, Ivory ...
Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
Although Burning Deck was a small, nonprofit press, it published works of innovative writing, including (alphabetical by author): 99: The New Meaning, by Walter Abish A Geometry by Anne-Marie Albiach