{{short description|Canadian-American writer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Antoine Wilson | image = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1971}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | occupation = Writer | period = 2000s–present | nationality = Canadian, American | notableworks = ''Panorama City'' | spouse = | website = {{URL|http://antoinewilson.com}} }}
'''Antoine Wilson''' (born 1971) is a Canadian-American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and later lived in Southern California, Central California, and Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite web|last=Browne|first=Douglas|title=Notes on Naïf: An Interview with Antoine Wilson|url=http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1167&fulltext=1&media=#article-text-cutpoint|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=November 15, 2012|access-date=November 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122205423/http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1167&fulltext=1&media=#article-text-cutpoint|archive-date=January 22, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> He attended UCLA and Iowa Writers' Workshop. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is a contributing editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine ''A Public Space''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mak|first=Josh|title=The Future of American Fiction: An Interview with Antoine Wilson|url=http://flavorwire.com/316318/the-future-of-american-fiction-an-interview-with-antoine-wilson|date=August 7, 2012|access-date=August 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Public Space|url=http://www.apublicspace.org/about/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Author Website|url=http://antoinewilson.com/wotwhat/?page_id=781}}</ref>
==Career==
His debut novel ''The Interloper'', published by Other Press in 2007, grapples with themes of family, crime, and revenge through the lens of an unreliable narrator.<ref>{{cite news|last=Walter|first=Jess|title=Payback Time|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-13-bk-walter13-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=May 13, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Briefly Noted|url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2007/07/09/070709crbn_brieflynoted2|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=July 9, 2007}}</ref> Wilson has said that the novel was partly inspired by the murder of his older brother when Wilson was seven years old.<ref>{{cite web|last=Miller|first=Callie|title=LAist Interview with Antoine Wilson|url=http://laist.com/2007/05/22/laist_interview_1.php|access-date=May 22, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525045302/http://www.laist.com/2007/05/22/laist_interview_1.php|archive-date=May 25, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> ''The Interloper'' was a finalist for the ''Foreword'' Book of the Year<ref>{{cite web|title=ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year finalists (2007)|url=https://botya.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2007/literary/}}</ref> and was named a Book of the Decade by ''The L Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The L Magazine Books of the Decade|url=http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/well-at-least-there-was-good-stuff-to-read-the-books-of-the-decade/Content?oid=1485416&storyPage=3}}</ref>
His second novel, ''Panorama City'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012. It spent seven weeks on the ''Los Angeles Times'' Bestseller list and was widely reviewed.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers|url=http://projects.latimes.com/bestsellers/authors/antoine-wilson/|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=October 21, 2012 – January 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rifkind|first=Donna|title=LA Story|url=https://newrepublic.com/book/review/west-coast-lit-panorama-city-antoine-wilson#|newspaper=The New Republic|date=November 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Long|first=Karen|title=Antoine Wilson Makes Grubby 'Panorama City' Memorable and Funny|url=http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2012/09/antoine_wilson_makes_grubby_pa.html|newspaper=Cleveland Plain Dealer|date=September 24, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Schell-Lambert|first=Theo|title='Panorama City' by Antoine Wilson|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Panorama-City-by-Antoine-Wilson-4024751.php|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=November 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Brown|first=August|title=Book Review: 'Panorama City'|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-oct-07-la-ca-antoine-wilson-20121007-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=October 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Parker |first=Amy |title=The Integrity of His Innocence: On Antoine Wilson's 'Panorama City' |url=http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1228&fulltext=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130802223408/http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1228&fulltext=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 2, 2013 |publisher=Los Angeles Review of Books |access-date=December 7, 2012 }}</ref> In ''The New York Times Book Review'', Adam Ross noted a shift in Wilson's focus: "If ''The Interloper'' was about lighting the way to hell, to paraphrase Milton, here the author's gaze is directed heavenward, toward sanity and the good in all of us. ''Panorama City'' is about our struggle to remain open to one another in a world that categorizes and closes us off at every turn."<ref>{{cite news|last=Ross|first=Adam|title="Panorama City" review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/books/review/panorama-city-by-antoine-wilson.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 21, 2012}}</ref>
In Germany, ''Panorama City'' was released as ''Ein Mann von Welt''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Baulig|first=Sonja|title=Buchtipps: Das sind die neuen Kult-Autoren|url=http://maxi.wunderweib.de/bildergalerie/3092557/Buchtipps-Das-sind-die-neuen-Kult-Autoren.html|newspaper=Maxi Magazine|date=July 23, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Neue Bücher|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/kulturspiegel/d-95994842.html|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=May 27, 2013}}</ref>
Wilson's third novel, ''Mouth to Mouth'', was published by Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster) in 2022.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mouth-to-Mouth/Antoine-Wilson/9781982181819 |title=Mouth to Mouth |date=2022-01-11 |isbn=978-1-9821-8180-2 |language=en}}</ref> It follows the story of a man who saves the life of a stranger and the fateful entanglements that follow. President Barack Obama included the book on his 2022 Summer Reading List.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-26 |title=It's that time again! See which titles made Barack Obama's 2022 summer reading list |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-07-26/barack-obama-summer-reading-list-booker-prize-nominees-2022 |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> It was also chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by ''TIME''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-14 |title='Mouth to Mouth' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 |url=https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2022/6228591/mouth-to-mouth/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=Time |language=en}}</ref> and NPR.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mazariegos |first=Miranda |date=July 20, 2022 |title=Here are the 14 books that NPR staff and critics are loving the most so far this year |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1108587023/highly-recommended-books-we-love |access-date=December 11, 2023 |website=www.npr.org}}</ref>
Wilson's short fiction has appeared in ''A Public Space'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Storyquarterly'', ''Quarterly West'', and the ''Los Angeles Times'', as well as ''Best New American Voices 2001''. His stories have received Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize XXX and XXXVII.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://antoinewilson.com/wotwhat/nonfiction/where-to-find-my-stuff/|title=Short Fiction - Author Website|date=2010-06-21|work=antoine wilson|access-date=2018-05-02|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2022, Wilson appeared on ''Storybound'' reading an excerpt from ''Mouth to Mouth''.
==Awards==
In 2001, he was awarded the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing – Fellows|url=http://creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellows.html|access-date=July 8, 2013|archive-date=January 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106041431/http://creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellows.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2005, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|last=GalleyCat|title=2005 National Magazine Awards for Fiction|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/2005-national-magazine-award-finalists-for-fiction_b670|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130802223411/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/2005-national-magazine-award-finalists-for-fiction_b670|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 2, 2013}}</ref>
''Panorama City'' was named a Best Book of 2012 by The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and an editors' choice by ''The New York Times Book Review''.<ref>{{cite news|last=McMurtrie|first=John|title=Best Books of 2012|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Best-books-of-2012-100-recommended-books-4139185.php|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=February 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Editor's Choice|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/books/review/editors-choice.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 28, 2012}}</ref> ''Panorama City'' was a finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=SCIBA Award Finalists 2013|url=https://www.facebook.com/socalindependentbooksellers/posts/639910992694287}}</ref> In 2017, ''Panorama City'' won the inaugural San Fernando Valley Award for Fiction from the Friends of the Library at California State University, Northridge.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://library.csun.edu/Friends/san-fernando-valley-book-award | title=San Fernando Valley Award: Oviatt Library | website=library.csun.edu | language=en | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523103119/https://library.csun.edu/Friends/san-fernando-valley-book-award | archive-date=23 May 2024 | access-date=14 January 2026}}</ref>
''Mouth to Mouth'' was a finalist for the 2022 California Independent Booksellers Alliance Golden Poppy Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=California Independent Booksellers Alliance |url=https://caliballiance.org/page/GoldenPoppy2022 |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=caliballiance.org}}</ref> and was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/books/14-canadian-authors-longlisted-for-100k-scotiabank-giller-prize-1.6573339 "14 Canadian authors longlisted for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize"]. CBC Books, September 6, 2022.</ref>
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