Gabe Hudson is an American

United States

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 writer who currently lives in Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

, Korea

Korea

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, where he is Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University

Yonsei University

Yonsei University is a Christian private research university, located in Seoul, South Korea. Established in 1885, it is one of the oldest universities in South Korea, the top private comprehensive universities in South Korea, and is widely regarded as one of the top three comprehensive...

’s Underwood International College

Underwood International College

Underwood International College is a college of Yonsei University, a private university based in Seoul, South Korea. UIC is the newest undergraduate college at Yonsei University, and is the only program at the university to conduct classes exclusively in English. It aims to provide a liberal arts...

. Before moving to Seoul

Seoul

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, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 from 2004-2007.

Life

Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and holds an M.F.A. from Brown University

Brown University

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, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. He has traveled extensively in East Asia, and resided in Bangkok and Seoul.

Work

Hudson’s first book of fiction, “Dear Mr. President” (2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University

Princeton University

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, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. “Dear Mr. President” was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice

The Village Voice

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, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times

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Publications

Hudson’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, The Village Voice

The Village Voice

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, McSweeney’s, Black Book

Black Book

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, Granta

Granta

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, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art

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, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine

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Hudson was a contributing writer for HBO’s book, “Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death” (2004). He is an editor-at-large for McSweeney’s.

In 2007, he was selected as one of the “Twenty Best Young American Novelists” by Granta Magazine.