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The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners Spiral-Bound | September 13, 2022

Valeria Luiselli (Edited by), Jenny Minton Quigley (Series edited by)

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The prestigious annual story anthology, now in its second year with a new guest editor format, includes stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.

The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners—continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence—contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices, and including translations from seven different languages. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 059346754X
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 101 to 500 ratings
"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly

“These stories surprise and illuminate.” —Publishers Weekly
VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. She is the author of two essay collections and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and The Lost Children Archive. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award, she has also been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and three times for the Kirkus Prize. She is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

 

JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds, and editor of the anthology Lolita in the Afterlife. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.

Author Residence: New York City

Author Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico