Shute, Jenefer

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Jenefer Shute is the author of the novels Life-Size (Houghton Mifflin, 1992), Sex Crimes (Doubleday, 1996), and Free Fall (Random House UK, 2002), as well as numerous essays and articles in publications such as Harpers, the Nation, salon.com, the London Guardian, Tikkun, the Boston Review, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her "Instructions for Surviving the Unprecedented" appears in 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 (NYU Press, 2002). Life-Size, the story of a young woman who refuses to eat, was named one of the "Top Twenty" titles at London's Feminist Book Festival in 1993, and "Sex Crimes," the story of a sexual obsession that escalates into violence, has been optioned for a feature film by the BBC.

Shute is the recipient of a 2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, as well as recent awards from the Fondazione Bogliasco (Italy), the Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), and the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation (Switzerland). Shute's fiction has been translated into eight languages.

Her critical essays on Nabokov appear in, among others, The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (Garland, 1995), and Lolita: A Casebook (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Jenefer Shute was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a Ph.D in literature from the University of California and is a professor in the English Department of Hunter College, where she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She has also taught, most recently, at the University of Paris and the University of Cape Town.

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