Rafi Zabor
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Life and work
A graduate of Brooklyn College, Zabor became a jazz critic for Musician in 1977, and later became an editor for the magazine.[3]
He received the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his first novel, The Bear Comes Home, which follows an alto saxophonist – who happens to be a bear – in his pursuit of musical perfection.[4]
Zabor's second book, the memoir I, Wabenzi, was commercially unsuccessful and met with mixed critical response.[3]
In 2008, Zabor received an NEA Literature Fellowship.[3]
As of 2011[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., he was reportedly working on a new novel, to be titled The Bosphorus Dogs.[5]
Zabor is also a jazz drummer.[1][3]
Bibliography
- The Bear Comes Home (1997)
- I, Wabenzi (2005)
References
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External links
- "Of the Tree and its Four Birds" by Rafi Zabor, at Words Without Borders
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- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
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- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Brooklyn College alumni