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Often calledone of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by theNew York Timesfor fiction that has “the crackle of authenticity, like the bite of breaking glass.”

Novakovich was born in 1956 in what is nowCroatia.He studied medicine in Serbia, and then moved to America, where his mother wasborn, and continued his studies. Novakovich has received aWhiting Writer’s Award, aGuggenheim fellowship, two fellowships from theNational Endowment of the Arts, an award fro...