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Jenefer Shute is the author of the novels Life-Size (Houghton Mifflin, 1992), Sex Crimes (Doubleday, 1996), Free Fall (Random House UK, 2002), and User ID (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), 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.
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 has been extensively anthologized. Sex Crimes, the story of a sexual obsession that escalates into violence, has been optioned for a feature film, as has User ID (by director/producer Susan Seidelman). Shute’s fiction has been translated into eight languages.
Recent shorter pieces include “Instructions for Surviving the Unprecedented,” which appears in 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 (NYU Press, 2002), and “The Annotated Guide,” in A City Imagined: Cape Town and the Meanings of a Place (Penguin, 2006).
Shute is the recipient of a 2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature. She has also received residency awards from the Fondazione Bogliasco (Italy), the Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation (Switzerland), the Julia and David White Artists' Colony (Costa Rica), and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (USA, 2005).
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 has also taught, most recently, at the University of Paris and the University of Cape Town.
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