Melvin Jules Bukiet

Melvin Jules Bukiet (born 1953 ) is an American writer and literary critic.

Life

Melvin Jules Bukiet is a child of Holocaust survivors. The family came from Proszowice . His father and uncle survived the Krakow ghetto and imprisonment in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt .

Bukiet was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College . He is a member of the board of directors of the American Society for Yad Vashem.

Bukiet writes literary reviews for the New York Times , the Washington Post , The Paris Review and The American Scholar, among others . He has published several novels and volumes of short stories. He won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 1992.

Works (selection)

Fiction

• Sandman's Dust . New York: Arbor House, 1985
• While the Messiah tarries . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995
  • The Whims of the Messiah: Stories . Translation by Hans-Jürgen Heckler. Munich: Luchterhand, 2000 ISBN 978-3-630-87081-6
• Anus . New York: Picador, 1996
  • Then: Roman . Translation Benjamin Schwarz. Munich: Luchterhand, 1997 ISBN 978-3-630-86966-7
• Signs and wonders . New York: Picador, 1999
  • Signs and wonders: novel . Translation Benjamin Schwarz . Munich: Luchterhand, 1999 ISBN 978-3-630-87000-7
• Strange fire . New York: WW Norton, 2001
  • Foreign fire . Translation Benjamin Schwarz. Munich: Luchterhand, 2002 ISBN 978-3-630-87126-4
• Stories of an imaginary childhood . Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002
• A Faker's Dozen: stories . New York: Norton, 2003
• Undertown . New York: Amulet Books, 2013
• Naked Came the Post-Postmodernist . New York: Arcade, 2013

Anthologies

• (Ed.): Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex . New York: Broadway Books, 2000
• (Ed.): Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors . New York: WW Norton, 2002
• with David G. Roskies (Ed.): Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary Jewish Fiction . Persea, New York, 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Melvin Jules Bukiet in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Melvin Jules Bukiet in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Melvin Jules Bukiet at perlentaucher.de
• Melvin Jules Bukiet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sheryl Silver Ochayon: Interview With Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author and Professor, Sarah Lawrence College. On History and Fiction , at Yad Vashem