Tadzio Koelb
Tadzio Koelb is an American émigré novelist, translator, and critic based in Belgium.
Career
Koelb's first novel, Trenton Makes, appeared in March 2018. It received favorable reviews in the New York Times Book Review and the Financial Times. The Center for Fiction shortlisted the novel for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. The French translation of the novel was long listed for the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and shortlisted for the Prix du roman PAGE.In addition to fiction, Koelb has published criticism and reviews on literature and the arts in a wide variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the New York Times, the New Statesman, The Guardian, Art in America, and the Times Literary Supplement. His short critical biography of Lawrence Durrell appeared as part of Scribner's Sons British Writers series, edited by Jay Parini. In 2015 Koelb published Morasses, a translation of André Gide’s novel Paludes.