Irina Reyn
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Irina Reyn is an American
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 novelist. Her novel, What Happened to Anna K., was selected as the tenth best fiction book of 2008 by Jennifer Reese of Entertainment Weekly
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, and won the 2009 Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by emerging writers.

Reyn was born in Moscow
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, Russia
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. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
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.

Works

  • What Happened to Anna K. (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
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    , 2008)
  • Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State (editor) (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2007)

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