Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Books by Susan Choi

Flashlight

Susan Choi

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 – The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from Japan to the USA to the North Korean regime

The Foreign Student

Susan Choi

Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping novel of love and war, from the Booker-longlisted author of Flashlight

American Woman

Susan Choi

A young woman is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in the dazzling, Pulitzer-nominated novel from the Booker-longlisted author of Flashlight

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