John Wray

John Wray is the author of the novels Godsend, The Lost Time Accidents, Lowboy, Canaan's Tongue, and The Right Hand of Sleep. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. He is also the winner of the 2017 Deutschlandfunk Prize awarded at the Festival of German-Language Literature (the Ingeborg Bachmann Wettbewerb in Klagenfurt). A citizen of the United States and Austria, he currently lives in Mexico City. Image credit: © Ali Smith