Jonathan Lee

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Jonathan Lee is a a 34-year-old British writer who The Guardian has called ‘a major new voice in British fiction.’

His debut novel, ‘Who Is Mr Satoshi?’, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize for Literature. His second novel, ‘Joy,’ has been translated into several languages, was included in the Observer’s Books of the Year list for 2012, & was shortlisted for the Encore Award. In 2012 Jonathan was the recipient of a Society Of Authors K. Blundell Trust Award.

Jonathan lives in New York, where he’s an editor at the literary journal A Public Space & a contributing editor to Guernica. Recent work has appeared in Tin House, Granta, Narrative, Guernica, Vice, & online at The Paris Review. One of his short stories was recently longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2014. His new novel ‘High Dive’ is published on 22 October 2015 by William Heinemann in the U.K. and in March 2016 by Knopf in the U.S.

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Pushcart (Fiction) 2016*

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