Miroslav Penkov was born in in Bulgaria. He moved to the United States in on a scholarship to study psychology at the University of Arkansas, where he subsequently gained an MFA in creative writing. His stories have won the BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in journals and anthologies including Granta, The Best American Short Stories (edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor) and The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories Published in more than a dozen countries, his collection EAST OF THE WEST was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. His debut novel, STORK MOUNTAIN, was published by Sceptre in Penkov teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is the editor-in-chief of the American Literary Review.
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Miroslav Penkov was born in in Bulgaria. He moved to the United States in on a scholarship to study psychology at the University of Arkansas, where he subsequently gained an MFA in creative writing.
His stories have won the BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in journals and anthologies including Granta, The Best American Short Stories (edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor) and The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories. Published in more than a dozen countries, his collection East of the West was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction.
Penkov teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is the editor-in-chief of the American Literary Review.
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Biography
Miroslav Penkov was born in in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. When he was four, his family moved to the capital city of Sofia, where he graduated from First English Language High School. He moved to America in and completed a bachelor's degree in Psychology, followed by an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
His stories, translated in over twenty languages, have won the BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, Orion, The Sunday Times, The Best American Short Stories , The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories , The Best American Nonrequired Reading
EAST OF THE WEST, his first book, was published in the U.S. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and in seventeen other countries. It was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for First Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters. In Bulgaria his own translation of the stories was published by Ciela under the title &#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; and became the #1 best-selling Bulgarian book of
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Table of Contents
There are eight stories in East of the West. Here you can find either the opening paragraph of each or an excerpt that I thought captures the story's voice.
Introduction
Makedonija
East of the West
Buying Lenin
The Letter
A Picture With Yuki
Cross Thieves
The Night Horizon
Devshirmeh
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Narrated by Gareth Armstrong, Jane Collingwood, Thomas Judd, Patrick Moy, Hugh Ross
A Few Words of Praise
" one of the most exciting debut collections in recent memory."
-- The Boston Globe
" Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey a collection of triumphs."
-- The LA Times
" This is a sparkling collection.."
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Biography
Miroslav Penkov was born in in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. When he was four, his family moved to the capital city of Sofia, where he graduated from First English Language High School. He moved to America in and completed a bachelor's degree in Psychology, followed by an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
His stories, translated in over twenty languages, have won the BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, Orion, The Sunday Times, The Best American Short Stories , The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories , The Best American Nonrequired Reading
EAST OF THE WEST, his first book, was published in the U.S. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and in seventeen other countries. It was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for First Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters. In Bulgaria his own translation of the stories was published by Ciela under the title &#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; and became the #1 best-selling Bulgarian book of
In , Miroslav was mentored by Michae
Table of Contents
There are eight stories in East of the West. Here you can find either the opening paragraph of each or an excerpt that I thought captures the story's voice.
Introduction
Makedonija
East of the West
Buying Lenin
The Letter
A Picture With Yuki
Cross Thieves
The Night Horizon
Devshirmeh
Audiobook
Audiobook @
Audiobook @
Narrated by Gareth Armstrong, Jane Collingwood, Thomas Judd, Patrick Moy, Hugh Ross
A Few Words of Praise
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-- The Boston Globe
" Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey a collection of triumphs."
-- The LA Times
" This is a sparkling collection.."
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