14 Facts About Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser was born on September 14,1976 and is an American writer and translator.

Benjamin Moser received the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for his biography of Susan Sontag, titled Sontag: Her Life and Work.

Benjamin Moser came to Brown with the intention of studying Chinese, but soon switched to Portuguese, a choice that would have great influence on his subsequent work.

Benjamin Moser worked briefly in publishing and was living in New York City when he met his current partner, Dutch novelist Arthur Japin.

Benjamin Moser then moved to several different cities in Europe before eventually settling in the Netherlands where he earned his MA and PhD from Utrecht University.

Benjamin Moser is the brother of author and progressive political activist Laura Moser.

Benjamin Moser's energetically researched, finely argued biography will surely win Lispector the English-language readership she deserves.

Benjamin Moser discusses her work in great detail, book after book, with sympathy and insight, and admirably eschews jargon.

In 2016, Benjamin Moser published a book of essays in Portuguese called Autoimperialismo: tres ensaios sobre o Brasil.

Benjamin Moser is patient with her, truthful yet tender, recognizing both what was thrilling and what was cursed about her.

Benjamin Moser has had the confidence and erudition to bring all these contradictory aspects together in a biography fully commensurate with the scale of his subject.

In 2022, Benjamin Moser published The Upside-Down World, a personal account of his moving to the Netherlands when he was young, and his encounters with the Dutch artists of the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer.

The ongoing project, which now stretches to eleven volumes, was carried out with a team of translators, with Benjamin Moser contributing several translations of his own.

Benjamin Moser served as New Books Columnist for Harper's Magazine from 2009 to 2011, and was a Bookends columnist at The New York Times Book Review.