![]() ![]() Van Booy's first novel, Everything Beautiful Began After, was released in 2011 and was nominated for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction. The New York Times said that “Incurable romantics will savor Simon Van Booy’s tender, Maupassant-like fables.” While the Los Angeles Times said of Van Booy’s, The Secret Lives of People in Love”, “One worries, after reading a debut short-story collection this breathtaking, what Simon Van Booy could possibly do for an encore. Van Booy has written two collections of short stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love (2011 Finalist Award for The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature) and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the world's richest short story prize. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Simon Van Booy is a British writer who lives in the United States. Currently-lives in Brooklyn, New York City.Awards-Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.Education-B.A., University of Plymouth M.F.A.,. ![]()
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