Nathan Englander is the author of the novels DINNER AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES, and the story collections FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES and WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK --- winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His short fiction has been widely anthologized, most recently in 100 YEARS OF THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. Englander’s play, "The Twenty-Seventh Man," premiered at The Public Theater in 2012. He translated the New American Haggadah and co-translated Etgar Keret’s Suddenly a Knock on the Door. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.

Books by Nathan Englander

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

by Nathan Englander - Fiction, Political Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence. From these vastly different lives, Nathan Englander has woven a powerful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories

by Nathan Englander - Fiction, Short Stories

These eight new stories from celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander address the great questions of modern life, exploring a range of eccentric characters through history and across generations.

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

by Nathan Englander