David Bezmozgis - Awards

Awards

• Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2004)
• Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction, Koffler Centre of the Arts (2005)
• Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (UK) (2004)
• Shortlisted for the Governor General's Awards for Literature (2004)
• Shortlisted for the Borders Original Voices Award (2004)
• Winner of the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction (2004)
• Winner of the Commonwealth First Book Prize for Caribbean/Canada (2004)
• Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best first collection of short fiction in the English language (2005)
• Finalist for the National Magazine Awards for fiction (2005)
• Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005)
• Winner of the City of Toronto Book Award (2005)
• Winner of the JQ Wingate Prize 2005 Fiction, Natasha and Other Stories