David Bezmozgis

DAVID BEZMOZGIS is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His debut story collection, Natasha and Other Stories , won the Toronto Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. His first novel, The Free World, was a finalist for both the Governor General's Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His second novel, The Betrayers, was also a Giller Prize finalist and won the National Jewish Book Award . His writing...See more

DAVID BEZMOZGIS is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His debut story collection, Natasha and Other Stories , won the Toronto Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. His first novel, The Free World, was a finalist for both the Governor General's Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His second novel, The Betrayers, was also a Giller Prize finalist and won the National Jewish Book Award . His writing has appeared in many publications, including the New Yorker , Harper's , Zoetrope: All-Story and The Best American Short Stories . David Bezmozgis has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. He is the director of the Humber School for Writers. Born in Riga, Latvia, he lives in Toronto. See less