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T. Coraghessan Boyle

American novelist and short story writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1948 · age 77

Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published thirty one novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.

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2017Jonathan Swift AwardAward1999PEN/Malamud AwardAward1997Prix Médicis étrangerAward1989“If you're not working, you might as well be dead.”In their wordsActs of God (1989)

“His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.”In their wordsActs of God (1989)

“The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.”In their wordsActs of God (1989)

1988PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAward1948Born2 December 1948

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Jonathan Swift Award2017
PEN/Malamud Award1999
Prix Médicis étranger1997
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction1988
Guggenheim Fellowship
Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors

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Born 1948 · age 77

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