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'''Gary Shteyngart''' ({{IPAc-en|lang|ˈ|ʃ|t|aɪ|n|ɡ|ɑr|t}}; born July 5, 1972) is a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-born [[United States of America|American]] writer. Much of his work is satirical.
'''Gary Shteyngart''' ({{IPAc-en|lang|ˈ|ʃ|t|aɪ|n|ɡ|ɑr|t}}; born July 5, 1972) is a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-born [[United States of America|American]] writer. He is the author of five novels (including [[Absurdistan (novel)|''Absurdistan'']] and ''[[Super Sad True Love Story]]'') and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical.


==Early life==
== Early life ==
Born '''Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart'''<ref name="name"/> ({{lang-ru|Игорь Семёнович Штейнгарт}}) in the [[Soviet Union]], he spent the first seven years of his childhood living in a square dominated by a huge statue of [[Vladimir Lenin]] in what is now [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]—which he alternately calls "St. Leningrad" or "St. Leninsburg". He comes from a [[Russian Jews|Jewish]] family, with an [[Russians|ethnically Russian]] maternal grandparent,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/same-planet-different-worlds/305004/|title=Same Planet, Different Worlds|first=Jennie Rothenberg|last=Gritz|date=15 June 2006|publisher=}}</ref> and describes his family as typically [[Soviet people|Soviet]]. His father worked as an engineer in a [[LOMO]] camera factory; his mother was a pianist. When he was five, he wrote a 100-page comic novel.<ref name="writersalmanac.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html?p=8303.html|title=Tuesday Jul. 5, 2016|author=|date=|website=The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref>
Born '''Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart'''<ref name="name" /> ({{lang-ru|Игорь Семёнович Штейнгарт}}) in the [[Soviet Union]], he spent the first seven years of his childhood living in a square dominated by a huge statue of [[Vladimir Lenin]] in what is now [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]—which he alternately calls "St. Leningrad" or "St. Leninsburg". He comes from a [[Russian Jews|Jewish]] family, with an [[Russians|ethnically Russian]] maternal grandparent,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/same-planet-different-worlds/305004/|title=Same Planet, Different Worlds|first=Jennie Rothenberg|last=Gritz|website=[[The Atlantic]]|date=15 June 2006}}</ref> and describes his family as typically [[Soviet people|Soviet]]. His father worked as an engineer in a [[LOMO]] camera factory; his mother was a pianist. When he was five, he wrote a 100-page comic novel.<ref name="writersalmanac.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=8303.html|title=Tuesday Jul. 5, 2016|website=The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref>


Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979 and was brought up in Queens, New York,<ref name=webdelsol/> with no television in the apartment in which he lived, where English was not the household language. He did not shed his thick Russian accent until the age of 14.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,,2114545,00.html | work=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | title=Russian revolution | first=Ed | last=Pilkington | date=June 29, 2007 | accessdate=May 3, 2010}}</ref>
Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979 and was brought up in Queens, New York,<ref name=webdelsol /> with no television in the apartment in which he lived, where English was not the household language. He did not shed his thick Russian accent until the age of 14.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,,2114545,00.html | work=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | title=Russian revolution | first=Ed | last=Pilkington | date=June 29, 2007 | access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref>


He is a graduate of [[Stuyvesant High School]]<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2006/May/html/car-metamorphosis.html |title=The Metamorphosis of a Writer: An Interview with Gary Shteyngart |first=Liza |last=Young |journal=Education Update |date=May 2006 |accessdate=2007-11-01}}</ref> in [[New York City]], and [[Oberlin College]] in [[Ohio]], where he earned a degree in politics, in 1995,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.oberlin.edu/alummag/oamcurrent/oam_winter2003/bookshelf.html|title=Oberlin Alumni Magazine : Winter 2002-2003|author=|date=|website=www2.oberlin.edu|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref> with a senior thesis on the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova, and Tajikistan.<ref name=webdelsol/>
He is a graduate of [[Stuyvesant High School]]<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2006/May/html/car-metamorphosis.html |title=The Metamorphosis of a Writer: An Interview with Gary Shteyngart |first=Liza |last=Young |journal=Education Update |date=May 2006 |access-date=2007-11-01}}</ref> in [[New York City]], and [[Oberlin College]] in [[Ohio]], where he earned a degree in politics, in 1995,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.oberlin.edu/alummag/oamcurrent/oam_winter2003/bookshelf.html|title=Oberlin Alumni Magazine : Winter 2002–2003|website=www2.oberlin.edu|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref> with a senior thesis on the [[Republics of the Soviet Union|former Soviet republics]] of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Moldova]] and [[Tajikistan]].<ref name=webdelsol />


==Career==
== Career ==
After Oberlin, he worked a series of jobs, as a writer, for non-profit organizations in New York.<ref name=webdelsol/><ref>[[Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society]]</ref>
After Oberlin, he worked a series of jobs as a writer for non-profit organizations in New York.<ref name=webdelsol /><ref>[[Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society]]</ref>


Shteyngart took a trip to [[Prague]] in the early 1990s,<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/magazine/from-russia-with-tsoris.html|title=From Russia With Tsoris|first=Daniel|last=Zalewski|date=|website=nytimes.com|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref> and this experience helped spawn his first novel, ''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'', set in the fictitious European city of Prava.<ref name=webdelsol>{{cite web|url=http://www.webdelsol.com/Literary_Dialogues/interview-wds-shteyngart.htm|title=Can't Live Long Without Writing: A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart|author=Natasha Grinberg|date=|website=www.webdelsol.com|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref>
Shteyngart took a trip to [[Prague]] in the early 1990s,<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/magazine/from-russia-with-tsoris.html|title=From Russia With Tsoris|first=Daniel|last=Zalewski|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=2 June 2002|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref> and this experience helped spawn his first novel, ''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'', set in the fictitious European city of Prava.<ref name=webdelsol>{{cite web|url=http://www.webdelsol.com/Literary_Dialogues/interview-wds-shteyngart.htm|title=Can't Live Long Without Writing: A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart|author=Natasha Grinberg|website=www.webdelsol.com|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref>


In 1999, as part of the application to Hunter College’s MFA program<ref name="writersalmanac.org"/> he mailed a portion of his first novel to [[Chang-Rae Lee]], the director of the creative writing program at Hunter College.<ref name="auto"/> Lee helped Shteyngart get his first book deal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/01/gary-shteyngart-chang-rae-lee-feast-interview.html|title=Pigging Out With Writers Gary Shteyngart and Chang-rae Lee|author=|date=7 January 2014|website=vulture.com|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref> Shteyngart earned an MFA in Creative Writing at [[Hunter College]] of the [[City University of New York]].
In 1999, as part of the application to Hunter College's MFA program<ref name="writersalmanac.org" /> he mailed a portion of his first novel to [[Chang-Rae Lee]], the director of the creative writing program at Hunter College.<ref name="auto" /> Lee helped Shteyngart get his first book deal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/01/gary-shteyngart-chang-rae-lee-feast-interview.html|title=Pigging Out With Writers Gary Shteyngart and Chang-rae Lee|date=7 January 2014|website=vulture.com|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref> Shteyngart earned an MFA in creative writing at [[Hunter College]] of the [[City University of New York]]. Shteyngart had a fellowship at the [[American Academy in Berlin]], Germany, for Fall 2007.<ref name="AmAcad07">{{cite web | url=http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/gary-shteyngart | title=Citigroup Distinguished Visitor, Class of Fall 2007 | publisher=American Academy in Berlin | access-date=March 11, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524095649/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/gary-shteyngart | archive-date=2015-05-24 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has taught writing at Hunter College, and currently teaches writing at [[Columbia University]].


== Awards ==
Shteyngart had a fellowship at the [[American Academy in Berlin]], Germany, for Fall 2007.<ref name="AmAcad07">{{cite web | url=http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/gary-shteyngart | title=Citigroup Distinguished Visitor, Class of Fall 2007 | publisher=American Academy in Berlin | accessdate=March 11, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524095649/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/gary-shteyngart | archive-date=2015-05-24 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Shteyngart's work has received numerous awards. ''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'' won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award and the [[National Jewish Book Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30754|title=Past Winners – Fiction|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref> for Fiction. It was named a [[New York Times Notable Book|''New York Times'' Notable Book]] and one of the best debuts of the year by ''[[The Guardian]]'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/gary-shteyngart.html |title=Gary Shteyngart – Faculty |work=The Creative Writing Program at Columbia University |access-date=2012-12-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513115842/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/gary-shteyngart.html |archive-date=May 13, 2011 }} snapshot 2011-05-13 at archive.org</ref>


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In 2002, he was named one of the five best new writers by ''[[Shout NY]]'' Magazine. ''[[Absurdistan (novel)|Absurdistan]]'' was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' and [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]], as well as a book of the year by the ''[[Washington Post]]'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' and many other publications. In June 2010, Shteyngart was named as one of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine's "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/books/03under.html?scp=1&sq=new%20yorker%2040&st=cse | work=The New York Times | title=20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others | first=Julie | last=Bosman | date=June 2, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Super Sad True Love Story]]'' won the 2011 [[Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize]] for comic literature. His memoir ''Little Failure'' was a finalist for the 2014 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] (Autobiography).<ref name="nbcc2014">{{cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-its-finalists-for-publishing-year-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122120832/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-its-finalists-for-publishing-year-20|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 22, 2015|title=National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014|date=January 19, 2015|publisher=[[National Book Critics Circle]]|access-date=January 29, 2015}}</ref><ref name="sowt9Wq7zYU">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sowt9Wq7zYU|title=Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart – Book Trailer|last=Random House|date=14 December 2013|via=YouTube}}</ref>
He has taught writing at Hunter College, and currently teaches writing at [[Columbia University]].


==Awards==
== Work ==
Shteyngart's novels include ''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'' (2002), and ''[[Absurdistan (novel)|Absurdistan]]'' (2006). ''[[Super Sad True Love Story]]'' (2010) was promoted by a [[Trailer (promotion)|film trailer]] with [[Paul Giamatti]] and [[James Franco]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfzuOu4UIOU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/EfzuOu4UIOU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart (book trailer)|last=Random House|date=7 July 2010|access-date=26 September 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwWT0VgnCCw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/DwWT0VgnCCw |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Super Sad True Book Club, with Paul Giamatti and Gary Shteyngart|last=Random House|date=20 May 2011|access-date=26 September 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Thirty-five years after he emigrated to the U.S., in January, 2014, [[Random House]] published ''Little Failure: A Memoir'',<ref name="Memoir">{{cite web|title=Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/212018/little-failure-by-gary-shteyngart|publisher=Random House/Bertelsmann|access-date=4 January 2014}}</ref> and promoted it by a [[Trailer (promotion)|film trailer]] with [[James Franco]] and Rashida Jones.<ref name="sowt9Wq7zYU" /><ref name="uPwrEPvSjm0">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPwrEPvSjm0|title=Be recruited by Ben Stiller and Gary Shteyngart! - Book Trailer for Lake Success|last=Random House|date=14 August 2018|via=YouTube}}</ref> His 2018 book ''[[Lake Success (novel)|Lake Success]]'' was promoted by a [[Trailer (promotion)|film trailer]] with [[Ben Stiller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPwrEPvSjm0|title=Be recruited by Ben Stiller and Gary Shteyngart! (Book Trailer for ''Lake Success'')|last=Random House|date=14 August 2018|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSRpTMLkVTg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/JSRpTMLkVTg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Gary Shteyngart on Getting Jay McInerney and James Franco in his Book Trailer|last=The Daily Beast|date=23 July 2010|access-date=26 September 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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Shteyngart's work has received numerous awards. ''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'' won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award and the [[National Jewish Book Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30754|title=Past Winners - Fiction|last=|first=|date=|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref> for Fiction. It was named a [[New York Times Notable Book|''New York Times'' Notable Book]] and one of the best debuts of the year by ''[[The Guardian]]'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/gary-shteyngart.html |title=Gary Shteyngart - Faculty |work=The Creative Writing Program at Columbia University |accessdate=2012-12-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513115842/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/gary-shteyngart.html |archivedate=May 13, 2011 }} snapshot 2011-05-13 at archive.org</ref>


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His fifth novel, ''Our Country Friends,'' was published by Random House in 2021. It is a story about friends who spend the pandemic together.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gary-shteyngart/our-country-friends/|title=OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends: A Novel|url=https://www.atlantajcc.org/programs/gary-shteyngart-our-country-friends-a-novel/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=MJCCA|language=en-US}}</ref> His other writing has appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/gary-shteyngart|title=Gary Shteyngart – Contributors|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref> ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', ''[[Granta]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.granta.com/Magazine/84/Over-There-Gary-Shteyngart|title=Over There|first=Gary |last=Shteyngart|publisher=[[Granta]]}}{{dead link|date=November 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> ''[[Travel and Leisure]]'',<ref name="travelandleisure" /> and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="Shteyngart-t" />
In 2002, he was named one of the five best new writers by ''[[Shout NY]]'' Magazine. ''[[Absurdistan (novel)|Absurdistan]]'' was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' and [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]], as well as a book of the year by the ''[[Washington Post]]'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' and many other publications.


== Blurbs ==
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In June 2010, Shteyngart was named as one of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine's "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/books/03under.html?scp=1&sq=new%20yorker%2040&st=cse | work=The New York Times | title=20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others | first=Julie | last=Bosman | date=June 2, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Super Sad True Love Story]]'' won the 2011 [[Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize]] for comic literature. His memoir ''Little Failure'' was a finalist for the 2014 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] (Autobiography).<ref name="nbcc2014">{{cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-its-finalists-for-publishing-year-20|title=National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014|date=January 19, 2015|publisher=[[National Book Critics Circle]]|accessdate=January 29, 2015}}</ref><ref name="sowt9Wq7zYU">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sowt9Wq7zYU|title=Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart - Book Trailer|first=|last=Random House|date=14 December 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref>
Shteyngart has also become known for his prolific [[blurb]]ing,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-from-gary-shteyngart|title=An Open Letter from Gary Shteyngart|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=14 April 2014}}</ref><ref name="blurbs-real-estate">{{cite web|url=https://ny.curbed.com/2013/12/20/10161814/author-gary-shteyngart-blurbs-real-estate-company-on-yelp|title=Author Gary Shteyngart Blurbs Real Estate Company on Yelp|website=curbed.com|date=20 December 2013|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref> which has inspired a [[Tumblr]] website devoted to his Collected Blurbs,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://shteyngartblurbs.tumblr.com/ | title=The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart | first=Jacob | last=Silverman | date=January 5, 2013 | access-date=January 5, 2013}}</ref> a live reading,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2012/10/09/vol-1-presents-the-collected-blurbs-of-gary-shteyngart-live/ |title=Vol. 1 Brooklyn Presents: The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart, Live | first=Jason | last=Diamond | date=October 9, 2012 | access-date=January 5, 2013}}</ref> and a fifteen-minute documentary narrated by [[Jonathan Ames]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gze77JyKcoU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/gze77JyKcoU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live| title=Shteyngart Blurbs: A Documentary | first=Edward | last=Champion | date=January 3, 2013 | access-date=January 5, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>


==Work==
== Bibliography ==
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Shteyngart's novels include ''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'' (2002), and ''[[Absurdistan (novel)|Absurdistan]]'' (2006).


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=== Novels ===
''[[Super Sad True Love Story]]'' (2010) was promoted by a [[Trailer (promotion)|film trailer]] with [[Paul Giamatti]] and [[James Franco]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfzuOu4UIOU|title=SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart (book trailer)|first=|last=Random House|date=7 July 2010|publisher=|accessdate=26 September 2018|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwWT0VgnCCw|title=Super Sad True Book Club, with Paul Giamatti and Gary Shteyngart|first=|last=Random House|date=20 May 2011|publisher=|accessdate=26 September 2018|via=YouTube}}</ref>
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |title=[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]] <!--|location=New York |publisher=Riverhead Books--> |date=2002 <!--|isbn=1-57322-213-5 |isbn=978-1-57322-988-3-->}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=[[Absurdistan (novel)|Absurdistan]] <!--|location=New York |publisher=Random House--> |date=2006 <!--|isbn=978-1-4000-6196-9-->}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=[[Super Sad True Love Story]] |location= |publisher= |date=2010 <!--|isbn=978-1-4000-6640-7-->}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=[[Lake Success (novel)|Lake Success]] |location= |publisher= |date=2018 <!--|isbn=0-8129-9741-7-->}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=Our Country Friends |location= |publisher= |date=2021 <!--|isbn=978-1-984855-12-1-->}}


=== Memoirs ===
Thirty-five years after he emigrated to the U.S., in January, 2014, [[Random House]] published ''Little Failure: A Memoir'',<ref name=Memoir>{{cite web|title=Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/212018/little-failure-by-gary-shteyngart|publisher=Random House/Bertelsmann|accessdate=4 January 2014}}</ref> and promoted it by a [[Trailer (promotion)|film trailer]] with [[James Franco]] and Rashida Jones.<ref name="uPwrEPvSjm0">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPwrEPvSjm0|title=Be recruited by Ben Stiller and Gary Shteyngart! - Book Trailer for Lake Success|first=|last=Random House|date=14 August 2018|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref>
* {{cite book |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |title=[[Little Failure]]: A Memoir |location= |publisher= |date=2014 <!--|isbn=978-0-679-64375-3-->}}
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=== Short stories ===
His 2018 book, ''Lake Success'' was promoted by a [[Trailer (promotion)|film trailer]] with [[Ben Stiller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPwrEPvSjm0|title=Be recruited by Ben Stiller and Gary Shteyngart! (Book Trailer for ''Lake Success'')|first=|last=Random House|date=14 August 2018|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSRpTMLkVTg|title=Gary Shteyngart on Getting Jay McInerney and James Franco in his Book Trailer|first=|last=The Daily Beast|date=23 July 2010|publisher=|accessdate=26 September 2018|via=YouTube}}</ref>
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |title=Shylock on the Neva |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/09/02/shylock-on-the-neva |date=August 26, 2002 |magazine=The New Yorker <!--|access-date=April 25, 2024-->}}
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=A Love Letter |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/03/27/a-love-letter |date=March 19, 2006 |magazine=The New Yorker <!--|access-date=April 25, 2024-->}}
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=Lenny Hearts Eunice |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/14/lenny-hearts-eunice |date=June 7, 2010 |magazine=The New Yorker <!--|access-date=April 25, 2024-->}}
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=The Luck of Kokura |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/25/the-luck-of-kokura |date=June 18, 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker <!--|access-date=April 25, 2024-->}}


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=== Essays and reporting ===
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His other writing has appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/gary-shteyngart|title=Gary Shteyngart - Contributors|author=|date=|website=The New Yorker|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref> ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', ''[[Granta]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.granta.com/Magazine/84/Over-There-Gary-Shteyngart|title=Over There|first=Gary |last=Shteyngart|publisher=[[Granta]]}}{{dead link|date=November 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> ''[[Travel and Leisure]]'',<ref name="travelandleisure"/> and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="Shteyngart-t"/>
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* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |date=March 10, 2003 |title=Teen Spirit |department=Letter from Russia |magazine=The New Yorker |volume= |issue= |pages= |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/10/teen-spirit}}
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* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |date=June 10–17, 2013 |title=From the Diaries of Pussy-Cake |department=Memoirs |magazine=The New Yorker <!--|volume=89 |issue=17 |pages=52–54--> |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/10/from-the-diaries-of-pussy-cake <!--|access-date=2017-05-11-->}}
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* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |date=August 5, 2013 |title=O.K., Glass: Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer |department=Our Local Correspondents |magazine=The New Yorker <!--|volume=89 |issue=23 |pages=32–37--> |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/05/o-k-glass <!--|access-date=2016-12-19-->}}
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |date=March 20, 2017 |title=Time Out: Confessions of a Watch Geek |department=Personal History |magazine=The New Yorker <!--|volume=93 |issue=5 |pages=36–42--> |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of-a-watch-geek <!--|access-date=2018-08-12-->}}
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath |department=Personal History |magazine=The New Yorker |date=October 4, 2021 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/a-botched-circumcision-and-its-aftermath <!--|access-date=April 24, 2024-->}}
* {{cite news |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever |newspaper=The Atlantic |date=April 4, 2024 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-icon-of-seas/677838/ |url-access=subscription |language=en <!--|issn=2151-9463--> <!--|access-date=7 April 2024-->}}
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=A Martini Tour of New York City |department=Annals of Gastronomy |magazine=The New Yorker |date=April 24, 2024 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/a-martini-tour-of-new-york-city <!--|access-date=April 24, 2024-->}}
* {{cite magazine |ref=none |author=Shteyngart, Gary |author-mask=1 |title=The Case for Robert F. KENNEDY Jr. |department= |magazine=The Atlantic |date=August 13, 2024 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-shteyngart/679449/}}


==Blurbs==
== Personal life ==
Shteyngart has also become known for his prolific [[blurb]]ing,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-from-gary-shteyngart|title=An Open Letter from Gary Shteyngart|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="blurbs-real-estate">{{cite web|url=https://ny.curbed.com/2013/12/20/10161814/author-gary-shteyngart-blurbs-real-estate-company-on-yelp|title=Author Gary Shteyngart Blurbs Real Estate Company on Yelp|author=|date=|website=curbed.com|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref> which has inspired a [[Tumblr]] website devoted to his Collected Blurbs,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://shteyngartblurbs.tumblr.com/ | title=The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart | first=Jacob | last=Silverman | date=January 5, 2013 | accessdate=January 5, 2013}}</ref> a live reading,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2012/10/09/vol-1-presents-the-collected-blurbs-of-gary-shteyngart-live/ |title=Vol. 1 Brooklyn Presents: The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart, Live | first=Jason | last=Diamond | date=October 9, 2012 | accessdate=January 5, 2013}}</ref> and a fifteen-minute documentary narrated by [[Jonathan Ames]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gze77JyKcoU | title=Shteyngart Blurbs: A Documentary | first=Edward | last=Champion | date=January 3, 2013 | accessdate=January 5, 2013}}</ref>
Shteyngart is married to Esther Won, who is of Korean descent. They have a son, born October 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/60456-fiction-into-fact-gary-shteyngart.html|title=Fiction into Fact: Gary Shteyngart}}</ref> Shteyngart now lives in the Gramercy neighborhood of [[Manhattan]].<ref name="blurbs-real-estate" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/1325/|title=Six Degrees of Treyf: An Interview With Gary Shteyngart|first=Mark |last=Oppenheimer|website=forward.com|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref> He spends six months out of the year at a house in northern Dutchess County, in the Hudson River Valley where he does nearly all of his writing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/ben-stiller-stars-in-gary-shteyngart-book-trailer/Content?oid=5792391|title=Ben Stiller Stars in Gary Shteyngart Book Trailer|first=Brian K.|last=Mahoney}}</ref><ref name="Shteyngart-t">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/books/review/Shteyngart-t.html|title=Only Disconnect|first=Gary|last=Shteyngart|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/2014/01/10/gary-shteyngart-tells-truth-245014.html|title=Gary Shteyngart Tells the Truth|website=[[Newsweek]]|date=8 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amtrakthenational.com/gary-shteyngart|title=Café Society|date=31 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="travelandleisure">{{cite web|url=https://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/escape-to-new-yorks-hudson-valley|title=Escape to New York's Hudson Valley|first=Gary |last=Shteyngart|publisher=[[Travel and Leisure]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/realestate/gary-shteyngarts-year-round-dacha.html|title=Gary Shteyngart's Year-Round Dacha|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 August 2018|access-date=26 September 2018|last1=Kaufman|first1=Joanne}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
== References ==
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{{Expand list|date=December 2016}}

===Books===
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====Novels====
*''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'' (2002), {{ISBN|978-1-57322-988-3}}
*''[[Absurdistan (novel)|Absurdistan]]'' (2006), {{ISBN|978-1-4000-6196-9}}
*''[[Super Sad True Love Story]]'' (2010), {{ISBN|978-1-4000-6640-7}}
*''Lake Success'' (2018), {{ISBN|0812997417}}

====Non-fiction====
* ''[[Little Failure|Little Failure: A Memoir]]'' (2014), {{ISBN|9780679643753}}

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===Essays and reporting===
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*{{cite journal |first=Gary|last=Shteyngart |authorlink= |authormask= |date=June 10–17, 2013 |title=From the diaries of Pussy–Cake |department=Memoirs |journal=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=17 |pages=52–54 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/10/from-the-diaries-of-pussy-cake |<!--accessdate=2017-05-11-->}}
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*{{cite journal |first=Gary|last=Shteyngart |authorlink= |authormask=1 |date=August 5, 2013 |title=O.K., glass : confessions of a Google Glass explorer |department=Our Local Correspondents |journal=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=23 |pages=32–37 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/05/o-k-glass |<!--accessdate=2016-12-19-->}}
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*{{cite journal |first=Gary|last=Shteyngart |authorlink= |authormask=1 |date=March 20, 2017 |title=Time out: Confessions of a watch geek |department=Personal History |journal=The New Yorker |volume=93 |issue=5 |pages=36–42 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of-a-watch-geek |<!--accessdate=2018-08-12-->}}

==Personal life==
Shteyngart is married to Esther Won, who is of Korean descent. In October 2013, they became parents to Johnny Won Shteyngart.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/60456-fiction-into-fact-gary-shteyngart.html|title=Fiction into Fact: Gary Shteyngart|publisher=}}</ref>

Shteyngart now lives in the Gramercy neighborhood of [[Manhattan]],<ref name="blurbs-real-estate"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/1325/|title=Six Degrees of Treyf: An Interview With Gary Shteyngart|first=Mark |last=Oppenheimer|date=|website=forward.com|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref> and spends six months out of the year at a house<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/realestate/gary-shteyngarts-year-round-dacha.html|title=Gary Shteyngart’s Year-Round Dacha|author=|date=|website=nytimes.com|accessdate=26 September 2018}}</ref> in the Hudson River Valley<ref name="Shteyngart-t">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/books/review/Shteyngart-t.html|title=Only Disconnect|first=Gary|last=Shteyngart|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/2014/01/10/gary-shteyngart-tells-truth-245014.html|title=Gary Shteyngart Tells the Truth|date=8 January 2014|publisher=}}</ref> in northern Dutchess County<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/ben-stiller-stars-in-gary-shteyngart-book-trailer/Content?oid=5792391|title=Ben Stiller Stars in Gary Shteyngart Book Trailer|first=Brian K.|last=Mahoney|publisher=}}</ref> where he does nearly all of his writing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amtrakthenational.com/gary-shteyngart|title=Café Society|date=31 July 2018|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="travelandleisure">{{cite web|url=https://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/escape-to-new-yorks-hudson-valley|title=Escape to New York's Hudson Valley|first=Gary |last=Shteyngart|publisher=[[Travel and Leisure]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==Interviews==
== Interviews ==
*{{cite journal |first=Benjamin |last=Law |authorlink=Benjamin Law (writer) |authormask= |date=Sep 2014 |title=10 things I believe (interview with Gary Shteyngart) |department= |journal=[[Smith Journal]] |volume=12 |issue= |pages=22–24 |url=https://www.smithjournal.com.au/past-volumes/smith-journal-volume-12 |accessdate=}}
* {{cite journal |first=Benjamin |last=Law |author-link=Benjamin Law (writer) |date=Sep 2014 |title=10 things I believe (interview with Gary Shteyngart) |journal=[[Smith Journal]] |volume=12 |pages=22–24 |url=https://www.smithjournal.com.au/past-volumes/smith-journal-volume-12 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100609061327/http://pjc.georgetown.edu/77195.html Interview] - Program for Jewish Civilization - [[Georgetown University]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100609061327/http://pjc.georgetown.edu/77195.html Interview] – Program for Jewish Civilization – [[Georgetown University]]
* [http://thegiganticmag.com/magazine/articleDetail.php?p=articleDetail&id=36 Interview 'On Meat over Meat: Dinner with Gary Shteyngart'], published in ''[[Gigantic (magazine)|Gigantic]]''
* [http://thegiganticmag.com/magazine/articleDetail.php?p=articleDetail&id=36 Interview 'On Meat over Meat: Dinner with Gary Shteyngart'], published in ''[[Gigantic (magazine)|Gigantic]]''
*[http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/interview-with-gary-shteyngart-20090602/ Interview with Gary Shteyngart: On Travel Writing]
* [http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/interview-with-gary-shteyngart-20090602/ Interview with Gary Shteyngart: On Travel Writing]
* Rozalia Jovanovic. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180926101729/https://therumpus.net/2009/10/james-francos-face/?all=1 James Franco’s Face: A Subjective Account of the New Yorker Festival] October 26, 2009
* Rozalia Jovanovic. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180926101729/https://therumpus.net/2009/10/james-francos-face/?all=1 James Franco's Face: A Subjective Account of the New Yorker Festival] October 26, 2009
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120515230150/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycmg/nyctvod/html/home/db_shtyengart.html Interview with Gary Shteyngart: On Stuyvesant High School]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120515230150/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycmg/nyctvod/html/home/db_shtyengart.html Interview with Gary Shteyngart: On Stuyvesant High School]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1684982888 Radio interview] with Gary Shteyngart on [[CBC Radio One]]'s ''[[Writers and Company]]''
* [http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1684982888 Radio interview] with Gary Shteyngart on [[CBC Radio One]]'s ''[[Writers and Company]]''
* [http://brooklynrail.org/2010/09/express/1984-20-gary-shteyngart-in-conversation-with-alessandro-cassin/ In Conversation: 1984 2.0: Gary Shteyngart with Alessandro Cassin, ''The Brooklyn Rail'']
* [http://brooklynrail.org/2010/09/express/1984-20-gary-shteyngart-in-conversation-with-alessandro-cassin/ In Conversation: 1984 2.0: Gary Shteyngart with Alessandro Cassin, ''The Brooklyn Rail'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081028003750/http://www.booksweb.tv/content/show/ContentId/700 Interview with Gary Shteyngart about Absurdistan] - ''BOOKSWEB TV'' (English and Italian)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081028003750/http://www.booksweb.tv/content/show/ContentId/700 Interview with Gary Shteyngart about Absurdistan] – ''BOOKSWEB TV'' (English and Italian)
* [http://www.jewcy.com/post/gary_shteyngart_becomes_american "Gary Shteyngart Becomes American"] - Jewcy Magazine
* [http://www.jewcy.com/post/gary_shteyngart_becomes_american "Gary Shteyngart Becomes American"] – Jewcy Magazine
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061107071251/http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/06_06/06_06_gary_shteyngart.html Interview with Gary Shteyngart] - [[Modern Drunkard Magazine]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061107071251/http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/06_06/06_06_gary_shteyngart.html Interview with Gary Shteyngart] – [[Modern Drunkard Magazine]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070826142636/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=1543143 Interview] at barnesandnoble.com
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070826142636/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=1543143 Interview] at barnesandnoble.com
* [http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/gary-shteyngart-introducing-toilet Gary Shteyngart: Introducing a toilet] Recorded at [[Louisiana Literature festival]]. Video by [[Louisiana Channel]].
* [http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/gary-shteyngart-introducing-toilet Gary Shteyngart: Introducing a toilet] Recorded at [[Louisiana Literature festival]]. Video by [[Louisiana Channel]].


==External links==
== External links ==
* [[Walter Kirn]]. ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30kirn.html Review: "Absurdistan", by Gary Shteyngart – Russian Unorthodox]'', [[New York Times]], April 30, 2006
* [[Walter Kirn]]. ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30kirn.html Review: "Absurdistan", by Gary Shteyngart – Russian Unorthodox]'', [[New York Times]], April 30, 2006
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080129212505/http://brooklynheathen.com/200801/zadie-smith-mcnally/ Zadie Smith & Gary Shteyngart] at [[McNally Jackson]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080129212505/http://brooklynheathen.com/200801/zadie-smith-mcnally/ Zadie Smith & Gary Shteyngart] at [[McNally Jackson]]
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Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Gary Shteyngart at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
BornIgor Semyonovich Shteyngart[1]
(1972-07-05) July 5, 1972 (age 52)[2]
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
SpouseEsther Won

Gary Shteyngart (English: /ˈʃtaɪnɡɑːrt/; born July 5, 1972) is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of five novels (including Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story) and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical.

Early life

Born Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart[1] (Russian: Игорь Семёнович Штейнгарт) in the Soviet Union, he spent the first seven years of his childhood living in a square dominated by a huge statue of Vladimir Lenin in what is now St. Petersburg—which he alternately calls "St. Leningrad" or "St. Leninsburg". He comes from a Jewish family, with an ethnically Russian maternal grandparent,[3] and describes his family as typically Soviet. His father worked as an engineer in a LOMO camera factory; his mother was a pianist. When he was five, he wrote a 100-page comic novel.[4]

Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979 and was brought up in Queens, New York,[5] with no television in the apartment in which he lived, where English was not the household language. He did not shed his thick Russian accent until the age of 14.[6]

He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School[7] in New York City, and Oberlin College in Ohio, where he earned a degree in politics, in 1995,[8] with a senior thesis on the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan.[5]

Career

After Oberlin, he worked a series of jobs as a writer for non-profit organizations in New York.[5][9]

Shteyngart took a trip to Prague in the early 1990s,[10] and this experience helped spawn his first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, set in the fictitious European city of Prava.[5]

In 1999, as part of the application to Hunter College's MFA program[4] he mailed a portion of his first novel to Chang-Rae Lee, the director of the creative writing program at Hunter College.[10] Lee helped Shteyngart get his first book deal.[11] Shteyngart earned an MFA in creative writing at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Shteyngart had a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007.[12] He has taught writing at Hunter College, and currently teaches writing at Columbia University.

Awards

Shteyngart's work has received numerous awards. The Russian Debutante's Handbook won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award and the National Jewish Book Award[13] for Fiction. It was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the best debuts of the year by The Guardian [14]

In 2002, he was named one of the five best new writers by Shout NY Magazine. Absurdistan was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Time magazine, as well as a book of the year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications. In June 2010, Shteyngart was named as one of The New Yorker magazine's "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers.[15] Super Sad True Love Story won the 2011 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature. His memoir Little Failure was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography).[16][17]

Work

Shteyngart's novels include The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002), and Absurdistan (2006). Super Sad True Love Story (2010) was promoted by a film trailer with Paul Giamatti and James Franco.[18][19] Thirty-five years after he emigrated to the U.S., in January, 2014, Random House published Little Failure: A Memoir,[20] and promoted it by a film trailer with James Franco and Rashida Jones.[17][21] His 2018 book Lake Success was promoted by a film trailer with Ben Stiller.[22][23]

His fifth novel, Our Country Friends, was published by Random House in 2021. It is a story about friends who spend the pandemic together.[24][25] His other writing has appeared in The New Yorker,[26] Slate, Granta,[27] Travel and Leisure,[28] and The New York Times.[29]

Blurbs

Shteyngart has also become known for his prolific blurbing,[30][31] which has inspired a Tumblr website devoted to his Collected Blurbs,[32] a live reading,[33] and a fifteen-minute documentary narrated by Jonathan Ames.[34]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Shteyngart, Gary (2002). The Russian Debutante's Handbook.
  • — (2006). Absurdistan.
  • — (2010). Super Sad True Love Story.
  • — (2018). Lake Success.
  • — (2021). Our Country Friends.

Memoirs

Short stories

Essays and reporting

Personal life

Shteyngart is married to Esther Won, who is of Korean descent. They have a son, born October 2013.[35] Shteyngart now lives in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan.[31][36] He spends six months out of the year at a house in northern Dutchess County, in the Hudson River Valley where he does nearly all of his writing.[37][29][38][39][28][40]

References

  1. ^ a b Lambert, Josh. "The True Name of Gary". JBooks.com. Retrieved 2012-12-13. Interview with Shteyngart.
  2. ^ "Gary Shteyngart". goodreads.com.
  3. ^ Gritz, Jennie Rothenberg (15 June 2006). "Same Planet, Different Worlds". The Atlantic.
  4. ^ a b "Tuesday Jul. 5, 2016". The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d Natasha Grinberg. "Can't Live Long Without Writing: A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart". www.webdelsol.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  6. ^ Pilkington, Ed (June 29, 2007). "Russian revolution". The Guardian. London. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
  7. ^ Young, Liza (May 2006). "The Metamorphosis of a Writer: An Interview with Gary Shteyngart". Education Update. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
  8. ^ "Oberlin Alumni Magazine : Winter 2002–2003". www2.oberlin.edu. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. ^ Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
  10. ^ a b Zalewski, Daniel (2 June 2002). "From Russia With Tsoris". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  11. ^ "Pigging Out With Writers Gary Shteyngart and Chang-rae Lee". vulture.com. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Citigroup Distinguished Visitor, Class of Fall 2007". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on 2015-05-24. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  13. ^ "Past Winners – Fiction". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  14. ^ "Gary Shteyngart – Faculty". The Creative Writing Program at Columbia University. Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved 2012-12-15. snapshot 2011-05-13 at archive.org
  15. ^ Bosman, Julie (June 2, 2010). "20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others". The New York Times.
  16. ^ "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  17. ^ a b Random House (14 December 2013). "Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart – Book Trailer" – via YouTube.
  18. ^ Random House (7 July 2010). "SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart (book trailer)". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 26 September 2018 – via YouTube.
  19. ^ Random House (20 May 2011). "Super Sad True Book Club, with Paul Giamatti and Gary Shteyngart". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 26 September 2018 – via YouTube.
  20. ^ "Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart". Random House/Bertelsmann. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  21. ^ Random House (14 August 2018). "Be recruited by Ben Stiller and Gary Shteyngart! - Book Trailer for Lake Success" – via YouTube.
  22. ^ Random House (14 August 2018). "Be recruited by Ben Stiller and Gary Shteyngart! (Book Trailer for Lake Success)" – via YouTube.
  23. ^ The Daily Beast (23 July 2010). "Gary Shteyngart on Getting Jay McInerney and James Franco in his Book Trailer". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 26 September 2018 – via YouTube.
  24. ^ OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS | Kirkus Reviews.
  25. ^ "Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends: A Novel". MJCCA. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  26. ^ "Gary Shteyngart – Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  27. ^ Shteyngart, Gary. "Over There". Granta.[dead link]
  28. ^ a b Shteyngart, Gary. "Escape to New York's Hudson Valley". Travel and Leisure.
  29. ^ a b Shteyngart, Gary (16 July 2010). "Only Disconnect". The New York Times.
  30. ^ "An Open Letter from Gary Shteyngart". The New Yorker. 14 April 2014.
  31. ^ a b "Author Gary Shteyngart Blurbs Real Estate Company on Yelp". curbed.com. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  32. ^ Silverman, Jacob (January 5, 2013). "The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart". Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  33. ^ Diamond, Jason (October 9, 2012). "Vol. 1 Brooklyn Presents: The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart, Live". Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  34. ^ Champion, Edward (January 3, 2013). "Shteyngart Blurbs: A Documentary". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  35. ^ "Fiction into Fact: Gary Shteyngart".
  36. ^ Oppenheimer, Mark. "Six Degrees of Treyf: An Interview With Gary Shteyngart". forward.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  37. ^ Mahoney, Brian K. "Ben Stiller Stars in Gary Shteyngart Book Trailer".
  38. ^ "Gary Shteyngart Tells the Truth". Newsweek. 8 January 2014.
  39. ^ "Café Society". 31 July 2018.
  40. ^ Kaufman, Joanne (21 August 2018). "Gary Shteyngart's Year-Round Dacha". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.

Interviews

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