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Nathan Englander

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Nathan Englander was born on January 1, 1970, in New York City. He attended the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County before going on to study at Binghamton University. A citizen of the United States, Englander has worked throughout his career in the English language.

His work as a novelist and writer has earned him recognition across a range of institutions and award bodies. He received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, an honor that marked an early distinction in his writing life. Further recognition came in the form of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Sophie Brody Medal, and the Berlin Prize. Beyond prose fiction, Englander has also worked as a filmmaker and a photographer, extending his practice across different expressive forms.

The Library of Congress catalogs his work under the authorized label "Englander, Nathan," a small institutional marker of a body of work that has accumulated recognition on both sides of the Atlantic.

Quotes by Nathan Englander

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.
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You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.
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The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form.
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The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form.
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.
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Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.
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Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.
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Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.
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I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the work ends up being corrupted. It becomes didactic. What a book does is share a consciousness and invite people to explore the questions as best as you can.
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I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the work ends up being corrupted. It becomes didactic. What a book does is share a consciousness and invite people to explore the questions as best as you can.
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I moved to New York because I thrive there.
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I moved to New York because I thrive there.
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Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.
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Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.
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I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
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I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
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Palestine isn't a state when it concerns statehood. When it comes to warring, it's a state, yes? The Palestinians, they live in a country, for the purpose of war.
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Palestine isn't a state when it concerns statehood. When it comes to warring, it's a state, yes? The Palestinians, they live in a country, for the purpose of war.
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