Simon Van Booy
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Simon Van Booy is a British author who lives in the United States[1]. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons.[2]
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[edit] Novel & Short Stories
He has written two collections of short stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love (2011 Finalist Award for The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature)[3] and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the world's richest short story prize. The New York Times said that “Incurable romantics will savor Simon Van Booy’s tender, Maupassant-like fables....”[4] While the Los Angeles Times said of Van Booy’s, The Secret Lives of People in Love” [that], “One worries, after reading a debut short-story collection this breathtaking, what Simon Van Booy could possibly do for an encore. Write something longer?”[5]
Van Booy’s first novel, Everything Beautiful Began After, is set for release in the U.S., and the U.K. in July 2011.
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Love Begins in Winter[6]
[edit] Philosophy Books
Van Booy is also the editor of three volumes of philosophy, entitled Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter, which The Economist said “have an instinctive appeal.”[7] The Wall Street Journal described Van Booy’s books as “brimming with thoughts from history's pre-eminent ponderers.”[8]
[edit] Essays
Van Booy’s essays have been published in newspapers internationally, including The New York Times,[12] the New York Post, The Daily Telegraph,[13] The Guardian,[14] The Mail,[15] and The Times.[16] They have also been broadcast on National Public Radio.[17] Van Booy’s essays cover topics such as fashion, literacy, history, travel, and living with his daughter as a single-parent.
[edit] Stage & Screen
In 2011, Van Booy delivered his first full-length stage comedy, and wrote an award-winning short film for the Morgans Hotel Group called "Love Is Like Life But Longer,[18]" directed by Poppy de Villeneuve, and starring Jeremy Strong, Maya Kazan, and Joan Copeland.
[edit] Teaching and Lecturing
Van Booy lectures frequently at schools, universities, and libraries in the United States, the United Kingdom, and in China. He teaches part-time at the School of Visual Arts in New York City,[19] and at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.[20] He is an advocate of education as a means of social reform, and involved in the Rutgers University Early College Humanities program (REaCH) for young adults living in under-served communities.[21]
[edit] Design
In 2009, Van Booy’s collection of short stories, Love Begins in Winter, was launched at Partners & Spade[22] in New York City, a studio and storefront which “produces films, books, apparel, and conceptual products as well as marketing and branding projects for select corporate clients.” For the launch, Van Booy was the curator of an exhibition of props and dioramas of dramatic scenes from his short story collection, and the collection included custom-made stethoscopes (containing quotes from Van Booy’s stories) and vintage Renault workshop posters, all designed by Van Booy. Since 2009, Partners & Spade have carried Van Booy’s “custom vintage Antarctic explorers’ skis,”[23] and cold-weather hats, which he designed to support research in Antarctic regions and raise awareness for the Scott Polar Research Institute at University of Cambridge.
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Partners & Spade Custom Vintage Skis
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Partners & Spade Custom-made Stethoscope
[edit] Foreign Titles
Van Booy’s fiction and essays have been translated into over a dozen languages throughout the world. In 2011 he embarked on a multiple city reading tour of China, where his books are available in two Chinese languages.[24]
[edit] Bibliography
- 2002 Love & The Five Senses won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize
- 2007 The Secret Lives of People in Love
- 2009 Love Begins in Winter won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
- 2011 Why We Need Love
- 2011 Why Our Decisions Don't Matter
- 2011 Why We Fight
[edit] References
- ^ Van Booy, Simon. "Simon van Booy on "The Song Is You" with Bonnie Grice". The Song Is You with Bonnie Grice. prx.org. http://www.prx.org/pieces/47640-simon-van-booy-on-the-song-is-you-with-bonnie-gr#description. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Grice, Bonnie (2010-06-21). "Save as Many as you Ruin". Save as Many as you Ruin. Prospect Magazine. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/06/save-as-many-as-you-ruin/. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ http://www.vilcek.org/prizes/prize-finalists/2011/index.html
- ^ Schillinger, Liesl (17 December 2010). "Turning the Pages on 2010: Books of Style". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/fashion/19Stylebooks.html.
- ^ "Discoveries". Los Angeles Times. 20 May 2007. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/20/books/bk-discoveries20.
- ^ http://www.simonvanbooy.com/images/bookcover2.jpg
- ^ "Five things: Practical philosophy". The Economist. http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2010/08/new_books.
- ^ "Airplane Reading". The Wall Street Journal. 21 August 2010. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704476104575439832650680728.html.
- ^ http://www.simonvanbooy.com/images/whyweneedlove.jpg
- ^ http://www.simonvanbooy.com/images/whydecisionsdontmatter.jpg
- ^ http://www.simonvanbooy.com/images/whyweneedfight.jpg
- ^ Van Booy, Simon (28 June 2009). "Raising a Princess Single-Handedly". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/fashion/28love.html.
- ^ Van Booy, Simon (17 August 2009). "Childhood: a fleeting beauty not to be missed". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/6029552/Childhood-a-fleeting-beauty-not-to-be-missed.html.
- ^ Van Booy, Simon (Saturday 19 December 2009). "Simon Van Booy: Love and loss at Christmas". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/19/christmas-love-loss-simon-van-booy. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ Van Booy, Simon (23 June 2010). Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1285573/Simon-Van-Booy-Meet-father-whos-educating-year-old-daughter-finer-points-style.html.
- ^ http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/
- ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125360733
- ^ Miller, Ken. "Poppy de Villeneuve's Elevator Love Letter". The Elevator Love Letter. http://www.interviewmagazine.com. http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/film/2011-03-08/poppy-de-villeneuve-love-is-like-life-but-longer/. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ http://www.sva.edu/sr/search.php?sOpen=&sClsd=&sCncl=&sWlst=&sDay=&sTime=&sInstructor=&sKeyword=&sDept=&sCount=6
- ^ http://www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/clas/english/adjuncts.htm
- ^ http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/newark_high_schoolers_graduate.html
- ^ http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/van-booy-stories-make-a-room-look-good_b9269
- ^ http://www.acquiremag.com/sports/sporting-goods/partners-spade-custom-vintage-1.php
- ^ Yueran, Zhang. "Literature Events for March". Stories about love: Simon Van Booy in conversation with Zhang Yueran. British Council. http://www.britishcouncil.org/china-arts-literature-nwfu03-6.htm. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
