Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his story collection THE VIEW FROM STALIN’S HEAD. His novel FAITH FOR BEGINNERS was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His novel NIRVANA IS HERE is the winner of a Bronze Medal in the 2019 Foreword Indies Awards. His latest novel, HOTEL CUBA, was featured on NPR and named a best book of 2023 by Hadassah Magazine. He is the winner of the 2023 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from Lambda Literary. His stories, essays, creative non-fiction, and more have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Tin House, Subtropics, O, the Oprah MagazineDetails, Crazyhorse, Boulevard, and many others.

Recent Publications
News
  • Available in print only, I write about what I learned about it the hard way about publishing a book in “Dwell in Gratitude” for Poets & Writers.
  • Excited to learn that Hotel Cuba is a finalist for the 2024 Bridge Book Awards in the American Fiction category.
  • The Jewish Book Council has selected Hotel Cuba as their January fiction pick for book clubs. The book was also reviewed (glowingly!) on their website. Check it out!

“…laugh-out-loud funny.”

“…the stuff of a Czech fairy tale.”

“…brilliant.”

“Hamburger engages the reader with wonderfully flawed characters and through the history, legend, and propaganda of modern Jewish life.”

“A knockout of a novel… The author’s shrewd and satirical look at Judaism, and American and Israeli style, is in the great tradition of Philip Roth.

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