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Brandon Hobson
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| Occupation | writer, professor |
| Nationality | Cherokee Nation |
| Education | Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City University |
| Genre | literary fiction |
Brandon Hobson is a fiction writer primarily known for literary fiction novels. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking (2018), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Career
Hobson received his PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe. In 2022, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021 ("Escape from the Dysphesiacs"), McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, NOON, and many other places.
Honors and awards
Literary awards
| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2016 | — | Pushcart Prize | — | Won | |
| 2018 | Where the Dead Sit Talking | National Book Award | Fiction | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Aspen Words Literary Prize | — | Longlisted | ||
| Reading the West Award | Fiction | Won | |||
| St. Francis College Literary Prize | — | Finalist | |||
| 2020 | International Dublin Literary Award | — | Longlisted | ||
| 2022 | The Removed | Western Heritage Award | Western Novel | Won | |
| 2023 | — | Dos Passos Prize | — | Finalist |
Other
- 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
Books
Novels
- Deep Ellum, 2014
- Desolation of Avenues Untold, 2015
- Where the Dead Sit Talking, 2018
- The Removed, 2021
Children's books
- The Storyteller, 2023
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