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Alexander Michael Shakar (born April 25, 1968) is an American novelist, short story writer, and academic. His novel Luminarium (Soho Press, 2011) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.
22 de abr. de 2012 · Neurological studies, military conglomerates, and war games? Didn’t sound like a book I’d like very much. In fact, I loved it! Shakar takes on the difficult questions of how to find meaning and be fully awake and he does it without pontificating in a story that is engaging from start to finish.
The Savage Girl was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and has been widely translated. His short story collection, City in Love, tracks the street odysseys of a museum guard, a junk sculptor, an actor, and others. It was the winner of the FC2 National Fiction Competition.
Shakar was born in and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1990. He was a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas. Shakar attended the University of Illinois and received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing.
Alex Shakar’s latest novel, Luminarium, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. It was also named an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times, a Notable Book by The Washington Post, and a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Austin Chronicle, and The Kansas City Star.
“Reading Alex Shakar’s new novel Luminarium is like running a marathon in a thunderstorm. It reads and flows with a certain exigency that won’t make you want to leave it for too long on your coffee table or on the floor space next to your bed.
The Savage Girl was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and has been widely translated. His short story collection, City in Love, tracks the street odysseys of a museum guard, a junk sculptor, an actor, and others. It was the winner of the FC2 National Fiction Competition.
