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and living in the United States. He is the author of the 2011 novel ''The Raw Man'', as well as "The Center of the World", a short story for which he won the 2006 O'Henry Prize. Clark teaches writing at the

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Education

Clark earned a PhD from

Career

In 1997, Clark published a short story collection called ''The Small Bees' Honey.'' He has seven stories anthologized in

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series. In 2006 Clark won the O'Henry Prize for his

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

"The Center of the World," published in the ''

Georgia Review ''The Georgia Review'' is a literary journal based in Athens, Georgia. Founded at University of Georgia in 1947, the journal features poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, and visual art. The journal has won National Magazine Awards for Fiction ...

''. In 2011 Clark published ''The Raw Man''. ''

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'' said the novel, set during the Zimbabwean war for independence, "captures liminal characters at a liminal moment in Zimbabwe's history." The

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

was translated into French by Cécile Chartres and Elisabeth Samama as ''Les Douze Portes dans la maison du sergent Gordon''. Clark teaches writing at the

References

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