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American novelist
Pauls Harijs Toutonghi
Born1976 (age 48–49)
Seattle, Washington
Occupation
  • Academic
  • writer
Alma mater
Years active2000—present
Notable awardsPushcart Prize, 2000
SpousePeyton Marshall
Children2
Website
paulstoutonghi.com

Pauls Harijs Toutonghi (born 1976) is a first-generation American fiction and non-fiction writer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, to immigrant parents. His mother emigrated from Latvia, his father emigrated from Egypt and was of Syrian descent.

His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books in 2006. His second, Evel Knievel Days, was published by Random House/Crown in 2012.

Red Weather was widely—and favorably—reviewed. Toutonghi has published work in Sports Illustrated, The Burnside Review, Glimmer Train, The Boston Review, One Story Magazine, and The New Yorker. His story, "Regeneration" won a Pushcart Prize in 2000. His 2016 non-fiction narrative, Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home, was the source for the 2023 Netflix film, Dog Gone.

Toutonghi received his MFA in poetry from Cornell University in 2003, followed by a PhD in English Literature in 2006. After his first novel was published, he moved from Brooklyn, New York to Portland, Oregon, where he now teaches as a Professor of English at Lewis and Clark College, specializing in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing.

Works

Fiction

Short stories

  • Regeneration. The Boston Review, 2000
  • Homecoming. The Boston Review, 2001
  • Live Cargo. Livingston Press, 2003

Novels

  • Red Weather. Random House, 2006
  • Evel Knievel Days. Random House, 2012
  • The Refugee Ocean. Simon & Schuster, 2023

Non-fiction

Books

  • Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home. Knopf, 2016

Essays

  • 9 Sencu Iela. The Virginia Quarterly Review, 2009
  • My First Early Success. The Quivering Pen, 2012
  • Our Father’s Body: An Egyptian refugee, the construction of whiteness, and what the U.S. census leaves out. The New Yorker, 2020

Personal life

He is married to the writer Peyton Marshall, and is the father of twins. His sister, Annette Toutonghi, is a professional actor. His father, Joseph Toutonghi, died in December 2017.

References

  1. ^ Live Cargo ... by Paul Toutonghi Amazon.com Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  2. ^ Toutonghi, Pauls. 9 Sencu Iela The Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 85 No.1, Winter 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  3. ^ Toutonghi, Pauls. Our Father’s Body The New Yorker. March 31, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
  4. Toutonghi, Pauls (2017-02-28). "Leaving Aleppo". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  5. Stevens, Krista (2017-03-06). "Leaving Aleppo: 'A distant star / Exhausts its light on the sleep of the dead.'". Longreads. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  6. Langer, Adam (2012-01-04). "Stumbling Through an American Muslim Maze". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  7. Sandomir, Richard (2018-04-04). "Drue Heinz, Patron of Literature and Host of Authors, Dies at 103". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  8. "East Meets Midwest (Published 2006)". The New York Times. 4 June 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28.
  9. Could Harvesting Fog Help Solve the World’s Water Crisis?
  10. Pauls Toutonghi, The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  11. D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 5, 2021). "Rob Lowe To EP & Star In Netflix Family Film 'Dog Gone'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 6, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  12. Pauls Toutonghi Lewis & Clark College. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  13. Toutonghi, Pauls. Regeneration The Boston Review, December 1, 1999. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  14. Toutonghi, Pauls. Homecoming The Boston Review, April 1, 2001. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  15. ISBN 1931982198
  16. ISBN 030733676X
  17. ISBN 030738215X
  18. ISBN 1668007436
  19. ISBN 1799994147
  20. Toutonghi, Pauls (June 18, 2012). "My First Early Success". The Quivering Pen. David Abrams. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  21. Peyton Marshall Penguin Random House. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  22. Munro, Ilse (September 7, 2011). "On Being Invisible". Little Patuxent Review. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
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