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Brandon Hobson

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Brandon Hobson
Occupationwriter, professor
NationalityCherokee Nation
EducationOklahoma State University Oklahoma City University
Genreliterary fiction

Brandon Hobson is a fiction writer primarily known for literary fiction novels. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking (2018), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

Career

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Hobson received his PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe.[1][2] In 2022, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3] His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021 ("Escape from the Dysphesiacs"), McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, NOON, and many other places.

Honors and awards

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Literary awards

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Year Title Award Category Result Ref.
2016 Pushcart Prize Won [1][4]
2018 Where the Dead Sit Talking National Book Award Fiction Finalist [5]
2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlisted [6]
Reading the West Award Fiction Won [7]
St. Francis College Literary Prize Finalist [8]
2020 International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted [9]
2022 The Removed Western Heritage Award Western Novel Won [10]
2023 Dos Passos Prize Finalist [11]

Other

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Books

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Novels

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  • Deep Ellum, 2014
  • Desolation of Avenues Untold, 2015
  • Where the Dead Sit Talking, 2018
  • The Removed, 2021[12]

Children's books

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  • The Storyteller, 2023

References

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  1. ^ a b "About". Brandon Hobson. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Green, Yantis (February 27, 2023). "Native American Author Headlines ASU Writers Conference".
  3. ^ a b "Brandon Hobson".
  4. ^ Report, Bulletin (May 29, 2022). "NMSU assistant professor receives Guggenheim Fellowship". Las Cruces Bulletin. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  5. ^ "Brandon Hobson". National Book Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  6. ^ "Aspen Institute Announces the Longlist for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize". The Aspen Institute. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
  7. ^ "Winners 2010 - 2019". Reading the West. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
  8. ^ "What's New At SFC". St. Francis College. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
  9. ^ "Where The Dead Sit Talking – International DUBLIN Literary Award". Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  10. ^ "The Removed - Western Heritage Award Winner". National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
  11. ^ https://www.longwood.edu/news/2023/dos-passos-shortlist-2023/
  12. ^ Hobson, Brandon (2021). The Removed (hardcover ed.). HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062997548.