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The Best Short Stories 2022
The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners | Valeria Luiselli
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin. "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." The Atlantic Monthly Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition 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 stories in translation from Bengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. 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. THE WINNING STORIES: Screen Time, by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell The Wolves of Circassia, by Daniel Mason Mercedess Special Talent, by Tere Dvila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed Rainbows, by Joseph ONeill A Way with Bea, by Shanteka Sigers Seams, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft The Little Widow from the Capital, by Yohanca Delgado Lemonade, by Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston Breastmilk, by Pemi Aguda The Old Man of Kusumpur, by Amar Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta Where They Always Meet, by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich Fish Stories, by Janika Oza Horse Soup, by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Max Lawton Clean Teen, by Francisco Gonzlez Dengue Boy, by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Zikora, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Apples, by Gunnhild yehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson Warp and Weft, by David Ryan Face Time, by Lorrie Moore An Unlucky Man, by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
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My favorite stories were Clean Teen by Francisco Gonzalez: a Latino boy raised by his grandmother is abused by his English teacher;Zikora by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie: a woman gives birth to a baby boy while remembering the child‘s father (and “their perfect relationship”) who now ghosts her; Face Time by Lorrie Moore: death and illness during the Covid pandemic.