• Author Interview
  • Wayne Karlin

    AUTHOR, EDITOR, & TRANSLATOR

    Wayne Karlin has been called by Tim O'Brien "one of the most gifted writers to emerge from the Vietnam War." He has written four previous novels in addition to his books with curbstone: Crossover, Lost Armies, The Extras and US. Karlin co-edited the first anthology of Viet Nam war veteran fiction, Free Fire Zone, and in 1995, he co-edited The Other Side of Heaven: Post War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. He is the series editor for Curbstone's “Voices from Viet Nam” series of contemporary fiction. Karlin's novel, Prisoners, received the Paterson Prize for Fiction. He lives in Maryland, where he teaches at the College of Southern Maryland.

    Works by Wayne Karlin from Curbstone Press:

     Against the Flood

     Behind the Red Mist

    The Cemetery of Chua Village

     Love After War : Contemporary Fiction from Viet Nam

     Marble Mountain

    The Other Side of Heaven : Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese & American Writers

     Past Continuous

     Prisoners

     Rumors and Stones : A Journey

     War Movies : Journeys to Vietnam: Scenes and Out-takes

    The Wished-for Country


     

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