Brandon Hobson
Brandon Hobson | |
|---|---|
| Hobson at the Tulsa Public Library Hobson at the Tulsa Public Library | |
| Occupation | writer, professor |
| Nationality | Cherokee Nation |
| Education | Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City University |
| Genre | literary fiction |
Brandon Hobson is a Cherokee Nation 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
[edit | edit source]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.[1][2] In 2022, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3] 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
[edit | edit source]Literary awards
[edit | edit source]| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2016 | — | Pushcart Prize | — | Won | [1][4] |
| 2018 | Where the Dead Sit Talking | National Book Award | Fiction | Finalist | [5] |
| 2019 | Aspen Words Literary Prize | — | Longlisted | [6] | |
| Reading the West Award | Fiction | Won | [7] | ||
| St. Francis College Literary Prize | — | Finalist | [8] | ||
| 2020 | International Dublin Literary Award | — | Longlisted | [9] | |
| 2022 | The Removed | Western Heritage Award | Western Novel | Won | [10] |
| 2023 | — | Dos Passos Prize | — | Finalist | [11] |
Other
[edit | edit source]Books
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]- Deep Ellum, 2014
- Desolation of Avenues Untold, 2015
- Where the Dead Sit Talking, 2018
- The Removed, 2021[14]
- The Devil is a Southpaw, 2025
Children's books
[edit | edit source]- The Storyteller, 2023
References
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- ^ https://www.longwood.edu/news/2023/dos-passos-shortlist-2023/
- ^ https://www.tulsalibrary.org/2025-american-indian-writers-award-honoring-brandon-hobson
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_City-County_Library
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External links
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- Living people
- 21st-century American male writers
- Cherokee Nation male writers
- Cherokee Nation writers
- Oklahoma State University alumni
- New Mexico State University faculty
- Institute of American Indian Arts faculty
- 21st-century Native American writers
- Native American novelists
- Oklahoma stubs
- American novelist stubs