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Jonathan Safran Foer

Nacido: February 21, 1977 – Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist and essayist whose work explores memory, family, trauma, identity, and ethics. He is best known for Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Eating Animals. His books have been translated widely, and Everything Is Illuminated won the National Jewish Book Award.

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Jonathan Safran Foer emerged from a Washington, D.C., upbringing in a Jewish family shaped by the long afterlife of Holocaust memory, but he did not set out early with a fixed plan to become a novelist. At Princeton, an early creative-writing class with Joyce Carol Oates became the decisive turning point: her encouragement gave him a sense that “his writing” existed as something serious, and the work he developed there eventually grew into Everything Is Illuminated. That debut announced him as a young writer of unusual formal ambition, someone willing to treat inherited history, family mythology, and comic invention as parts of the same emotional landscape. Rather than building an audience through a personal website or newsletter, he came to prominence in a more traditional way—through books, criticism, and literary attention that accumulated quickly around the force of the work itself. ((https://paw.princeton.edu/article/foer-99-oates-share-writing-life))

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Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life
-Middlebury College Commencement Speech
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I wrote the book in English because it’s my language
-GBH Interview: Here I Am
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I don’t think of myself as an activist
-The White Review Interview
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If we could move away from the notion of getting it all the way right, and just making better choices and having greater consciousness
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The thing I love in books is that the voice is mine
-Birnbaum v. Jonathan Safran Foer
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I was blowing air into a deflating balloon, trying to keep the shape of being a writer
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I am a chronic sufferer of “Jonathan block” – the inability to value my thoughts
-My Writing Day
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One needn’t believe in miracles to experience them. But one must be present for them
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The goal is always to write something I’m proud of
-This Much I Know

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