Natasha And Other Stories

DAVID BEZMOZGIS, a writer and filmmaker, was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. His first book, Natasha and Other Stories, won the Commonwealth Writers? Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean Region), was a New York Times Notable Book for 2004 and was nominated for a Governor General's Award. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. Bezmozgis? first feature film, Victoria Day, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2010, he was named one of The New Yorker?s “20 Under 40.? Bezmozgis lives in Toronto.