Irina Reyn is a Russian-born American

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. Her novel, ''What Happened to Anna K.'', was selected as the tenth best fiction book of 2008 by Jennifer Reese of

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, and won the 2009 Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by emerging writers.Goldberg Prize for Fiction , Foundation for Jewish Culture
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, Russia. She is an assistant professor of English at the

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Works

* '' What Happened to Anna K.'' (New York: Touchstone/

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, 2008)The 50 best fiction, poetry books of 2008 , Page 3 of 3
/ref> * ''Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State'' (editor) (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2007) * ''The Imperial Wife: A Novel'', (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016) *''Mother Country'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2019)

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* 1974 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American women novelists Writers from Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh faculty American people of Russian-Jewish descent Russian Jews Jewish American novelists 21st-century American women writers Novelists from Pennsylvania Russian emigrants to the United States American women academics 21st-century American Jews {{US-novelist-1970s-stub