Background
The daughter of an American father and a Filipina mother, Murray grew up in Australia, Pennsylvania, and the Philippines.
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Tales of the New World: Stories
( In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkn...)
In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkner-winning The Caprices, Sabina Murray confronts the manipulation, compassion, ambition, and controversy surrounding some of the most intrepid and sadistic pioneers of the last four millennia. Iconic explorers and settlers are made intimately human as they plow through the un-navigated boundaries of their worlds to give shape to modern geography, philosophy, and science. As Ferdinand Magellan sets out on his final voyage, he forms an unlikely friendship with a rich scholar who harbors feelings for the captain, but in the end cannot save Magellan from his own greed. Balboa’s peek at the South Sea may never have happened if it wasn’t for his loyal and vicious dog, Leonico, and an unavoidable urge to relieve himself. And Captain Zimri Coffin is plagued by sleepless nights after reading Frankenstein, that is until his crew rescues two shipwrecked Englishmen who carry rumor of a giant and deadly white whale lurking in the depths of the ocean. With her signature blend of sophistication and savagery, darkness and humor, Sabina Murray investigates the complexities of faith, the lure of the unknown, and the elusive mingling of history and legend.
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Forgery
( The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning autho...)
The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning author of The Caprices and A Carnivore’s Inquiry transports us to a mysterious world of deception, political intrigue, and desire. In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William’s art collection. Rupert’s first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a city of replicas and composites that, like a hall of mirrors, calls to question what is real and what is false. Journeying to the secluded island of Aspros, among a circle of artists and aristocrats, each with their own secrets, Rupert finds the very pieces he’s searching for, but can he escape the tragedy that ended his brief marriage? As beautiful as Rupert’s discoveries are, beneath the surface lurk rumors of insurrection, fabrication, and even murder. Seductive, compelling, and sly, Forgery is a sophisticated book about the value and meaning of art, love, and the corrosive power of grief.
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Slow Burn
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The Caprices
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Sabina Murray
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She also completed post-graduate study in fiction from The University of Texas in 1994.
Career
She received her Bachelor of Arts in art history from Mount Holyoke College in 1989 and her Master of Arts in English and creative writing from The University of Texas in 1994. She has previously been a Roger Muray Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) and was published in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, and the New England Review. She was also the fiction judge for the Drunken Boat’s First Annual Panliterary Awards.
Murray currently lives in western Massachusetts, where she is on the fiction faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst (along with Jeff Parker, Edie Meidav and Noy Holland).
She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College. The Beautiful Country (2004) (Terrence Malick, Nick Nolte, Bai Ling).
Achievements
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Several major awards, including the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2003). A Carnivore"s Inquiry, was named a "Best Book of the Year" by The Chicago Tribune. Fellowship from the Michener Center at The University of Texas, Austin Bunting fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Nominated for the Best First Screenplay Award (Independent Spirit Awards 2005) Guggenheim Fellowship 2007.
Works
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Tales of the New World: Stories
( In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkn...)
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Forgery
( The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning autho...)
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Tales of the New World by Murray, Sabina Paperback
(Tales of the New WorldMurray, Sabina)
- Slow Burn
- The Caprices
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Tales of the New World: Stories
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Guggenheim Fellowship PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; the Best First Screenplay Award
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens.The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens.