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Peter Orner

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Chicago IL, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories

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Peter Orner was born in Chicago and is the author of three novels: Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006), and his most recent, Love and Shame and Love (Little, Brown, 2011) which was recently called epic by Daniel Handler, "...epic like Gilgamesh, epic like a guitar solo." (Orner has since bought Gilgamesh and is enjoying it.) Love and Shame and Love is illustrated throughout by his brother Eric Orner, a comic artist and illustrator whose long time independent/alt weekly strip The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green was made into a feature film in 2008. Eric Orner's work is featured this year in Best American Cartoons edited by Alison Bechdel.

A film version of one of O...more Peter Orner was born in Chicago and is the author of three novels: Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006), and his most recent, Love and Shame and Love (Little, Brown, 2011) which was recently called epic by Daniel Handler, "...epic like Gilgamesh, epic like a guitar solo." (Orner has since bought Gilgamesh and is enjoying it.) Love and Shame and Love is illustrated throughout by his brother Eric Orner, a comic artist and illustrator whose long time independent/alt weekly strip The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green was made into a feature film in 2008. Eric Orner's work is featured this year in Best American Cartoons edited by Alison Bechdel.

A film version of one of Orner's stories, The Raft, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner.

The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller, won the Bard Fiction Prize. The novel is being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and German. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo is set in Namibia where Orner lived and worked in the early 1990's.

Esther Stories was awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pen Hemingway Award and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award.

Orner is also the editor of two non-fiction books, Underground America (2008) and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (co-editor Annie Holmes, 2010), both published by McSweeney's/ Voice of Witness, an imprint devoted to using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Harper's Magazine wrote, "Hope Deferred might be the most important publication out of Zimbabwe in the past thirty years."

Orner has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, The Southern Review, and various other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and the Pushcart Prize Annual. Orner has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations.

Orner has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (Visiting Professor, 2011), University of Montana (William Kittredge Visting Writer, 2009), the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (2009) Washington University (Visiting Hurst Professor, 2008), Bard College (Bard Fiction Prize Fellowship, 2007), Miami University (Visting Professor, 2002), Charles University in Prague (Visting Law Faculty, 2000). Orner is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State where he is an associate professor. He would like to divide his time between a lot of places, especially San Francisco and Chicago.(less)

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Average rating: 3.85 · 671 ratings · 180 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Love and Shame and Love 3.43 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Esther Stories 4.10 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo 3.82 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives by Peter Orner (Goodreads Author), Annie Holmes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tom Andes (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives by Peter Orner (Goodreads Author), Annie Holmes (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Un Solo Tipo Di Vento 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	À Midi L'été Commence by Peter Orner (Goodreads Author), Marie-Odile Fortier- Masek (Traduction) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Love and Shame and Love: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Love and Shame and Love 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Return of Kral Majales: Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010 by Louis Armand (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kevin Blahut, Robert Gal 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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date: December 13, 2011 07:00PM
location: The Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA, The United States
description: Peter Orner discusses his novel Love and Shame and Love. Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan, telling him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles to stay afloat. Covering four decades of Alexander’s life, from childhood to romance to unexpected fatherhood, Orner illuminates the intricacies of love and shame that sometimes follows.

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