Literary Arts

Laird Hunt is the author of nine novels, a collection of stories and two book-length translations from the French. Zorrie was a finalist for the National Book Award. Kind One was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, and Neverhome won the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and The Bridge Prize and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Étranger. The Evening Road, was a Financial Times of London Best Book of 2017. Float Up, Sing Down was published in 2026. His reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Los Angeles Times, and his fiction and translations have appeared in many literary journals in the United States and abroad. A former United Nations press officer, he has lived in Singapore, London, Paris, New York, Tokyo and Boulder.