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Besserman's forthcoming novel, "Fay's Men", (Running Wild Press) will be launched in Hawai'i at Coffee Talk Cafe and presented at the Hawai'i Book and Music Festival in 2024.
Perle Besserman is a recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award and past writer-in-residence at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim Artists’ Colony in Jerusalem.
Her books have been recorded and released in both audio and e-book versions and translated into over ten languages.
Perle holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and has lectured, toured, taught, and appeared on television, radio, and in two documentary films about her work in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, and the Middle East.
Its themes include self-deception, misplaced love, political and social violence, and spiritual naiveté.
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Connections
Married Manfred B. Steger, February 9, 1988.
- Father:
- Jacob A. Besserman
- Mother:
- Lillian Tobachnikov
- Spouse:
- Manfred B.
Steger
Welcome
Perle Besserman published her first story when she was nine years old and hasn't stopped writing since.
She holds a doctorate in comparative literature from Columbia University and has lectured, toured, taught, and appeared on television, radio, and in two documentary films about her work in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, and the Middle East.
Member of Modern Language Association.
Among the guests at the April 26 launch was Neil Abercrombie, governor of Hawai‘i. Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, Agni, Transatlantic Review, Nebraska Review, Southerly, North American Review, Bamboo Ridge, and in many other publications, both online and in print.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, she was praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the “clarity and feeling for mystic lore” of her writing and by Publisher’s Weekly for “wisdom [that] points to a universal practice of the heart.” Her autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage, was published by Houghton Mifflin; her latest novels, Kabuki Boy and Widow Zion, and Yeshiva Girl, a story collection, are available from Aqueous Books, Pinyon Publishing, and Homebound Publishing, respectively.
Myo is the title character: a young Kabuki actor whose brief but illustrious career parallels the story of midnineteenth-century Tokugawa Japan—in all its glory and violence—as it reluctantly makes its way into the modern world. Her most recent books of creative non-fiction are A New Zen for Women (Palgrave Macmillan) and Zen Radicals, Rebels, and Reformers, coauthored with Manfred Steger (Wisdom Books).
Perle S. Besserman
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Perle S. Besserman, American writer, educator. Originally trained as an actor, singer, and dancer, she brings her performance skills and lifelong love of the theater to her numerous award-winning fiction and creative nonfiction publications.
Recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award and past writer-in-residence at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim Artists’ Colony in Jerusalem, Pushcart Prize-nominee Perle Besserman was praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the “clarity and feeling for mystic lore” of her writing and by Publisher’s Weekly for its “wisdom [that] points to a universal practice of the heart.” Houghton Mifflin published her autobiographical novel Pilgrimage, and her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, AGNI, Transatlantic Review, Nebraska Review, Southerly, North American Review, and Bamboo Ridge, among others.
Member curriculum committee women's studies department, chair feminist issues committee department English Illinois State University, Normal, since 2002.
Achievements
Perle S. Besserman has been listed as a notable writer, educator by Marquis Who's Who.
Works
Membership
Member of Modern Language Association.
Background
Besserman, Perle S. was born on August 21, 1948 in New York City. On Sunday, May 19, she read from Kabuki Boy in the Makai Authors Pavilion. Her books have been recorded and released in both audio and e-book versions and translated into over ten languages. Besserman’s most recent books of creative non-fiction are A New Zen for Women (Palgrave Macmillan) and Zen Radicals, Rebels, and Reformers, coauthored with Manfred Steger (Wisdom Books).
A video interview with Jay Fidell, host of the series Think Tech Hawaii and Asia in Review, on YouTube.
Also available online is a video of Perle's book launch on Friday, April 26, 2013 at Coffee Talk in Honolulu.
Daughter of Jacob A. Besserman and Lillian Tobachnikov. See an extract from the conversation at the Ms. Aligned website.
Read her thoughts on the pros and cons of being a writer, a piece she wrote for the Penmen Review.
Perle's interviews are now available online:
A Future Primitive Podcast with Joanna Harcourt-Smith
An interview in the online international literary journal Cerise Press.