Pauls Toutonghi Explained
Pauls Harijs Toutonghi |
Birth Place: | Seattle, Washington |
Alma Mater: | |
Spouse: | Peyton Marshall |
Children: | 2 |
Awards: | Pushcart Prize, 2000 |
Years Active: | 2000—present |
Pauls Harijs Toutonghi (born 1976)[1] is a first-generation American fiction and non-fiction writer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, to immigrant parents. His mother emigrated from Latvia, his father emigrated from Egypt and was of Syrian descent.[2] [3]
His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books in 2006.[4] His second, Evel Knievel Days, was published by Random House/Crown in 2012.[5]
Red Weather was widely—and favorably—reviewed.[6] Toutonghi has published work in Sports Illustrated, The Burnside Review, Glimmer Train, The Boston Review, One Story Magazine, and The New Yorker.[7] His story, "Regeneration" won a Pushcart Prize in 2000.[8] His 2016 non-fiction narrative, Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home, was the source for the 2023 Netflix film, Dog Gone.[9]
Toutonghi received his MFA in poetry from Cornell University in 2003, followed by a PhD in English Literature in 2006. After his first novel was published, he moved from Brooklyn, New York to Portland, Oregon, where he now teaches as a Professor of English at Lewis and Clark College, specializing in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing.[10]
Works
Fiction
Short stories
- Regeneration. The Boston Review, 2000[11]
- Homecoming. The Boston Review, 2001[12]
- Live Cargo. Livingston Press, 2003
Novels
- Red Weather. Random House, 2006
- Evel Knievel Days. Random House, 2012
- The Refugee Ocean. Simon & Schuster, 2023
Non-fiction
Books
- Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home. Knopf, 2016
Essays
- 9 Sencu Iela. The Virginia Quarterly Review, 2009[13]
- My First Early Success. The Quivering Pen, 2012[14]
- Our Father’s Body: An Egyptian refugee, the construction of whiteness, and what the U.S. census leaves out. The New Yorker, 2020[15]
Personal life
He is married to the writer Peyton Marshall,[16] and is the father of twins. His sister, Annette Toutonghi,[17] is a professional actor. His father, Joseph Toutonghi, died in December 2017.
Notes and References
- https://www.amazon.com/Live-Cargo-Paul-Toutonghi/dp/1931982198 Live Cargo ... by Paul Toutonghi
- News: Toutonghi . Pauls . 2017-02-28 . Leaving Aleppo . en-US . The New Yorker . 2024-01-02 . 0028-792X.
- Web site: Stevens . Krista . 2017-03-06 . Leaving Aleppo: 'A distant star / Exhausts its light on the sleep of the dead.' . 2024-01-02 . Longreads . en-US.
- News: Langer. Adam. 2012-01-04. Stumbling Through an American Muslim Maze. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-09-10. 0362-4331.
- News: Sandomir. Richard. 2018-04-04. Drue Heinz, Patron of Literature and Host of Authors, Dies at 103. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-09-10. 0362-4331.
- Web site: East Meets Midwest (Published 2006) . . https://web.archive.org/web/20210928061536/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04swift.html?pagewanted=print . 2021-09-28 . live .
- https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/could-harvesting-fog-help-solve-the-worlds-water-crisis Could Harvesting Fog Help Solve the World’s Water Crisis?
- https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/pauls-toutonghi/ Pauls Toutonghi
- Web site: D'Alessandro. Anthony. Rob Lowe To EP & Star In Netflix Family Film 'Dog Gone'. Deadline Hollywood. August 5, 2021. December 23, 2023. August 6, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210806021801/https://deadline.com/2021/08/rob-lowe-to-ep-star-netflix-family-film-dog-gone-1234809998/. live.
- https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/58-pauls-toutonghi Pauls Toutonghi
- https://www.bostonreview.net/authors/pauls-toutonghi/ Toutonghi, Pauls
- Toutonghi, Pauls. Homecoming The Boston Review, April 1, 2001. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- Toutonghi, Pauls. 9 Sencu Iela The Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 85 No.1, Winter 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
- Web site: My First Early Success. Toutonghi. Pauls. The Quivering Pen. David Abrams. June 18, 2012. December 26, 2023.
- Toutonghi, Pauls. Our Father’s Body The New Yorker. March 31, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
- https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/peyton-marshall Peyton Marshall
- Web site: On Being Invisible. Munro. Ilse. Little Patuxent Review. September 7, 2011. December 23, 2023.