Gary Shteyngart, best selling novelist, to give public reading

Friday, September 7, 2012 at 3:00pm

Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium Central Campus

Best-selling novelist, Gary Shteyngart, will give a public reading from his novels on Friday, September 7 at 3pm in the Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

Shteyngart will be visiting Cornell as a University Lecturer. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University.

Shteyngart was born in Leningrad, Russia, in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction.

His second novel, Absurdistan, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as a best book of the year by Time, The Washington Post Book World, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and many other publications.

He has been selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, and Travel + Leisure and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Cornell Institute for European Studies, Creative Writing Program, Department of Government, Jewish Studies Program, and the Program in American Culture.