Aaron Hamburger

Hotel Cuba has won the Bridge Book Award in American Fiction!

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!

Read this conversation with Aaron and author Lauren Grodstein about their novels Hotel Cuba and We Must Not Think of Ourselves in Bomb Magazine!

The staff of All Things Considered highlights their most memorable stories from 2023, which includes an interview with Aaron Hamburger about Hotel Cuba.

The National Book Review named Hotel Cuba as one of its 5 Hot Books, praising it as “resonant and rich” and an “empathic, satisfying saga.” Read the full mention here.

Thank you to everyone who bought, read, and supported this novel. More copies are making their way into the world. I appreciate all the wonderful messages people have sent me as well as the love they’ve expressed online.

Aaron was awarded the 2023 Jim Duggins PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize by Lambda Literary. Judge Silas House wrote: “Throughout his career Aaron Hamburger has published beautifully written novels, short stories, essays, and journalism, and other kinds of writing that has always been craft-centered and language-driven while also expanding and complexifying notions of LGBTQ life. Hamburger’s work has been published in some of the country’s most respected journals, magazines and newspapers while his books have been widely acclaimed and awarded. He has also been an advocate of LGBTQ writing on the whole, whether mentoring emerging LGBTQ talent or helping to make queer literature more a part of the national conversation. Hamburger is a writer who has done much to celebrate both the written word and LGBTQ existence; his career as a writer and teacher is exemplary and is very deserving to be honored as a Duggins Prize recipient.” You can read an interview with Aaron here, as well as view his acceptance speech here.

Check out this beautiful interview that appeared in Times of Israel. Thank you, Avner Landes, for asking such great questions!