Omer Friedlander

Omer Friedlander was born in Jerusalem in 1994 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His debut story collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, won the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Wingate Prize. The book was longlisted for the Story Prize and chosen as a Sophie Brody Medal Honor Book.

Omer earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, England, and an MFA from Boston University, where he was supported by the Saul Bellow Fellowship. His short stories won numerous awards, and have been published in the United States, Canada, France, and Israel.

A Starworks Fellow in Fiction at New York University, he has earned fellowships from Bread Loaf and the Vermont Studio Center. He currently l

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