Josip Novakovich author biography, plus links to books by Josip Novakovich.

Josip Novakovich

Josip Novakovich emigrated from Croatia to the United States at the age of 20. He has published a dozen books, including two novels, April Fool's Day (in ten languages) and Rubble of Rubles, five story collections (Infidelities, Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters, Heritage of Smoke, and Tumbleweed) and three collections of narrative essays as well as two books of practical criticism. His work was anthologized in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award and an American Book Award, and in 2013 he was a Man Booker International Award finalist. He has taught at Penn State, University of Cincinnati, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and now at Concordia University in Montreal.

This biography was last updated on 12/13/2022.

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