Luminato: A Celebration of Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Award-winning authors David Bezmozgis and Dara Horn pay tribute to a literary legend.
Revered as a master storyteller, Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer explored Jewish life from the landscapes of Eastern Europe to New York. Singer's superlative ability to weave a tale now finds parallels in a new generation of writers, including two contemporary star authors whose works explore similar themes of immigration, family, politics and ultimately, compassion. Latvian-born Canadian writer David Bezmozgis is the author of the much-celebrated Natasha and Other Stories, winner of the City of Toronto Book Award and the Commonwealth Regional Prize for First Book. Dara Horn, named one of Granta magazine's Top Young American Novelists, is the author of The World to Come, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and selected as an Editor's Choice in The New York Times Book Review.
Be sure to join these two stellar talents in their celebration of a remarkable man and the literary legacy to which they are heirs.
Dara Horn was born in New Jersey in 1977 and received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University in 2006, studying Hebrew and Yiddish. Her first novel, In the Image, published by W.W. Norton when she was 25, received a 2003 National Jewish Book Award, the 2002 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the 2003 Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The World to Come, published by W.W. Norton in January 2006, received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, was selected as an Editor's Choice in The New York Times Book Review and as one of the Best Books of 2006 by The San Francisco Chronicle.
"Each page of her novel is a marvel" -The San Francisco Chronicle on Dara Horn's The World to Come
David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia in the former USSR. Natasha and Other Stories, David's first book, has been translated into more than twelve languages. Stories from Natasha have been nominated for The National Magazine Awards in Canada as well as the National Magazine Awards in the US. He is the recipient of the City of Toronto Book Award and the Commonwealth Regional Prize for First Book.
"Jewish immigrant literature is strewn with such stellar names ad Bellow and Malamud and Roth and Singer…Bezmozgis has worked hard to show that he belongs in the same company." –LA Weekly
