Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
1 appearances
Margot Singer
マーゴット・シンガー
Margot Singer
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Granville, Ohio, USA
Career
- Occupations
- Short story writer, Novelist, University instructor
- Affiliations
- Denison University (faculty), Queens University of Charlotte (faculty), McKinsey & Company (former employee)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | — | — | BA | — | United States |
| Oxford University | — | — | M.Phil. | — | United Kingdom |
| University of Utah | — | — | Ph.D. | — | United States |
Harvard University
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
Undergraduate degree; specific year not provided
Oxford University
Degree:
M.Phil.
Year of Graduation:
1986
Country:
United Kingdom
Awarded a Marshall Scholarship and earned an M.Phil.
University of Utah
Degree:
Ph.D.
Year of Graduation:
2005
Country:
United States
Earned a Ph.D.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | The Pale of Settlement | — | Flannery O'Connor Award organizers | 受賞 |
| — | Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers | The Pale of Settlement | — | Glasgow Prize organizers | 受賞 |
| — | Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction | The Pale of Settlement | — | Reform Judaism | 受賞 |
| — | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受給 |
| — | Carter Prize for the Essay | — | — | Carter Prize organizers | 受賞 |
| 2013 | James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship | The Art of Fugue (later retitled Underground Fugue) | — | James Jones Literary Society | 受賞 |
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
2006
Work:
The Pale of Settlement
Organization:
Flannery O'Connor Award organizers
Result:
受賞
Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers
Work:
The Pale of Settlement
Organization:
Glasgow Prize organizers
Result:
受賞
Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction
Work:
The Pale of Settlement
Organization:
Reform Judaism
Result:
受賞
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受給
Carter Prize for the Essay
Organization:
Carter Prize organizers
Result:
受賞
James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship
2013
Work:
The Art of Fugue (later retitled Underground Fugue)
Organization:
James Jones Literary Society
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
1 appearances
-
Edition 33 (2008) Runner-up
James Jones First Novel Fellowship
1 appearances
-
Edition 22 (2013) Winner
Edward Lewis Wallant Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 43 (2017) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Pale of Settlement
2007 Short story collectionA short story collection exploring Jewish communities, family, displacement, and memory. The pieces focus on interior lives and interpersonal relationships.
Jewish identityMigration and displacementFamily relationshipsMemory
Underground Fugue
2017 NovelA novel originally titled The Art of Fugue, employing multiple perspectives and timelines to examine urban life, music, and layered memories.
MemoryUrban lifeMusicFamily secrets
Bibliography
- The Pale of Settlement (2007)
- Underground Fugue (publication year: 2017, estimated)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Delicate psychological characterizationRealist narrationLayered temporal structures
- Recurring Motifs
- Jewish roots and traditionDisplacement and reunionFragments of memoryMusical structures (fugue-like patterns)
Legacy
Margot Singer is known for finely rendered stories and novels that address Jewish themes and memory. She has won awards including the Flannery O'Connor Award and contributes to the literary community as an educator.
Trivia
- Awarded a Marshall Scholarship and earned an M.Phil. from Oxford in 1986.
- Worked at McKinsey & Company from 1986 to 1997, serving as a Principal in the New York office.
- Teaches at Denison University and Queens University of Charlotte.
- Lives in Granville, Ohio with her husband and two children.