Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg
	van den Berg at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born	1983
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Website
	lauravandenberg.com

Laura van den Berg is an American writer.^[1]

Biography

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida. She has a BA from Rollins College ('05) and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. Her stories have been published in Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train and One Story.

Awards and honors

2010 The Story Prize longlist What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us^[2]
2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist The Isle of Youth^[3]
2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award winner for The Isle of Youth^[4]
2016 Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction Harvard University

Bibliography

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (2009)
There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights (2012)
The Isle of Youth (2013)
Find Me (2015), novel
The Third Hotel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018, ISBN 978-0374168353

References

↑ Serber, Natalie. Worst-Laid Plans Laura van den Berg’s ‘Isle of Youth', NYTimes, November 22, 2013
↑ Flood, Alison (9 July 2010). "US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
↑ Alison Flood (13 June 2014). "Frank O'Connor prize shortlist pits 'masters' against first-timers". The Guardian. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
↑ "The American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2014 Literature Awards Winners". American Academy of Arts and Letters. March 10, 2014. Archived from the original on May 22, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2014.

External links

Van den Berg's website

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[1] Serber, Natalie. Worst-Laid Plans Laura van den Berg’s ‘Isle of Youth', NYTimes, November 22, 2013

[2] Flood, Alison (9 July 2010). "US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2011.

[3] Alison Flood (13 June 2014). "Frank O'Connor prize shortlist pits 'masters' against first-timers". The Guardian. Retrieved June 16, 2014.

[4] "The American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2014 Literature Awards Winners". American Academy of Arts and Letters. March 10, 2014. Archived from the original on May 22, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2014.