The best short stories 2022 : the O. Henry Prize winners /
O. Henry Prize winners 2022. O. Henry Prize stories 2022.
guest editor: Valeria Luiselli ; series editor: Jenny Minton Quigley.
- New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.
- xix, 347 pages ; 21 cm.
Screen time / The wolves of Circassia / Mercedes's special talent / Rainbows / A way with Bea / Seams / The little widow from the capitol / Lemonade / Breastmilk / The old man of Kusumpur / Where they always meet / Fish stories / Horse soup / Clean teen / Dengue boy / Zikora / Apples / Warp and weft / Face time / An unlucky man / Jenny Minton Quigley -- Valeria Luiselli -- Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, The New York Times Magazine -- Daniel Mason, Zoetrope -- Tere Davila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed, The Offing -- Joseph O'Neill, The New Yorker -- Shanteka Sigers, The Paris Review -- Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft, Freeman's -- Yohanca Delgado, The Paris Review -- Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, Guernica -- 'Pemi Aguda, One Story -- Amir Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta, The Common -- Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich, The Yale Review -- Janika Oza, Kenyon Review -- Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russia by Max Lawton, N+1 -- Francisco Gonzalez, Gulf Coast -- Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, Granta -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Amazon Original Stories -- Gunnhild Oyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson, Freeman's -- David Ryan, Harvard Review -- Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker -- Samantha Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Foreword / Introduction /
"[T]his year’s edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation from Bengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.