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Biography
Benjamin Moser (September 14, 1976) is an American writer who lives in Utrecht, Netherlands
Biography
Born in Houston, Moser attended high school in Texas and France before graduating from Brown University with a degree in History. He briefly studied Chinese and Portuguese. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University.
He is the New Books Columnist for Harper's Magazine, a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and the author of a biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector titled Why This World. He discovered the books of Clarice Lispector while studying Portuguese-language literature.
He has published translations from the Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He speaks six languages in addition to these.
He lives with Arthur Japin (a Dutch writer) and Lex Jansen (publisher).
Awards and honors
- 2009 National Books Critics Circle Award (Biography) finalist for Why This World
- 2014 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing finalist
- "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.