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==Awards and critical acclaim==
==Awards and critical acclaim==
In 1997, Ozick received the [[Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay]] for ''Fame and Folly''. Ozick won the [[National Book Critics Circle]] award. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jul/04/cynthia-ozick-life-writing-interview A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick]</ref>Three of her stories won first prize in the [[O. Henry]] competition.<ref>[http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ozick-cynthia Jewish Women Encyclopedia: Cynthia Ozick]</ref> Ozick is also the recipient of the [[PEN/Nabokov Award]] in 2008.
Ozick in 1971 received the [[Edward Lewis Wallant Award]] for her short story collection, ''[[The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories]]''.<ref>[http://www.hartford.edu/greenberg/wallant.asp The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies]</ref> In 1997, Ozick received the [[Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay]] for ''Fame and Folly''. Ozick won the [[National Book Critics Circle]] award. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jul/04/cynthia-ozick-life-writing-interview A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick]</ref>Three of her stories won first prize in the [[O. Henry]] competition.<ref>[http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ozick-cynthia Jewish Women Encyclopedia: Cynthia Ozick]</ref> Ozick is also the recipient of the [[PEN/Nabokov Award]] in 2008.


== Published works ==
== Published works ==

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Cynthia Ozick
Born (1928-04-17) April 17, 1928 (age 96)
New York City, New York, United States
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1966 - Present

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American-Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist.[1][2]

Biography

Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She moved to the Bronx with her Russian-born parents, Celia (Regelson) and William Ozick, proprietors of the Park View Pharmacy in the Pelham Bay neighborhood.[2] As a girl, Ozick helped to deliver prescriptions. In Ozick's biography Growing up in the Bronx, she remembers stones thrown at her and being called a Christ-killer as she ran past the two churches in her neighborhood. In school she was publicly shamed for refusing to sing Christmas carols. She attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan.[3] She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A.[2] Ozick is married to Bernard Hallote, a lawyer, with whom she has a daughter. She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.

Literary career

Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes on a broad range of topics including politics, history, and literary criticism. In addition, she has written and translated poetry.

Her novel Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), called The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom, received much praise in the literary press. The Din in the Head is her sixth collection of literary essays. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2000, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Quarrel & Quandary. Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award established by Bernard Malamud’s family to honor excellence in the art of the short story. Her novel Foreign Bodies was shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize. Critically acclaimed novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers.[4]

Awards and critical acclaim

Ozick in 1971 received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for her short story collection, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories.[5] In 1997, Ozick received the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Fame and Folly. Ozick won the National Book Critics Circle award. [6]Three of her stories won first prize in the O. Henry competition.[7] Ozick is also the recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award in 2008.

Published works

Novels

  • Trust (1966)
  • The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
  • The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
  • The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
  • Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) (published in the United Kingdom in 2005 as The Bear Boy)
  • Foreign Bodies (2010)

Shorter fiction

Essay collections

  • All the World Wants the Jews Dead (1974)
  • Art and Ardor (1983)
  • Metaphor & Memory (1989)
  • What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers (1993)
  • Fame & Folly: Essays (1996)
  • Quarrel & Quandary (2000)
  • The Din in the Head: Essays (2006)

Drama

  • Blue Light (1994)

Miscellaneous

References

  1. ^ Articles about Cynthia Ozick, New York Times
  2. ^ a b c Emma Brockes. "A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick", The Guardian, 2 July 2011
  3. ^ Jewish Women Encyclopedia: Cynthia Ozick
  4. ^ Brief Interview with a Five Draft Man, Amherst Magazine
  5. ^ The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies
  6. ^ A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick
  7. ^ Jewish Women Encyclopedia: Cynthia Ozick
  • Belonging Too Well: Portraits of Identity in Cynthia Ozick's Fiction. Miriam Sivan. (SUNY Press, 2009).
  • Tom Teicholz (Spring 1987). "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". The Paris Review.
  • "A Conversation with Cynthia Ozick," Georgetown University
  • Interview at City Arts
  • Interview at The Morning News
  • PEN/Malamud Awards


Reviews

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