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Patty Yumi Cottrell | |
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Born | South Korea | May 20, 1981
Occupation | author, novelist |
Nationality | American |
Genre | novel, literary fiction |
Notable works | Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (2017) |
Notable awards | Whiting Award for Fiction (2018) |
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Patty Yumi Cottrell (born May 20, 1981) is a Korean-American novelist. She was born in South Korea and raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Cottrell's debut novel, Sorry To Disrupt the Peace, won the 2018 Whiting Awards in Fiction[1]. It was also long-listed for the Times Literary Supplement's Republic of Consciousness Prize[2], and is the winner of the Best First Book – Fiction 2017 National Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards[3] and Barnes & Noble’s 2017 Discover Award for Fiction[4]. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and others. She lives in Brooklyn.