Simon Van Booy
| Simon Van Booy | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 42) Frimley Park Hospital, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, designer |
Simon Van Booy is a British-American writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons.Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Simon Van Booy has written two collections of short stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love (2011 Finalist Award for The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature) and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the world's richest short story prize. The New York Times said that "Incurable romantics will savor Simon Van Booy's tender, Maupassant-like fables...." While the Los Angeles Times said of Van Booy's, The Secret Lives of People in Love" [that], "One worries, after reading a debut short-story collection this breathtaking, what Simon Van Booy could possibly do for an encore. Write something longer?"
Van Booy's first novel, Everything Beautiful Began After, was released in the US and UK in July 2011. Everything Beautiful Began After was nominated for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction His second novel, The Illusion of Separateness was released in the US in June 2013 and in the UK in July 2013. Publishers Weekly gave The Illusion of Separateness a starred review, and said "the writing is what makes this remarkable book soar".
Van Booy is the editor of three volumes of philosophy, entitled Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don't Matter, which The Economist said "have an instinctive appeal."The Wall Street Journal described Van Booy's books as "brimming with thoughts from history's pre-eminent ponderers."
Why We Need Love
Why Our Decisions Don't Matter
Why We Fight
Van Booy's essays have been published in newspapers internationally, including The New York Times,The New York Post, The Daily Telegraph,The Guardian,The Mail, and The Times. They have also been broadcast on National Public Radio. Van Booy's essays cover topics such as fashion, literacy, history, travel, and living with his daughter as a single-parent.
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