{"id":1712,"date":"2021-02-03T22:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/?page_id=1712"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:19:20","slug":"antoine-wilson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/antoine-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPhoto: Noah Stone<\/p>\n

Antoine Wilson<\/strong>‘s most recent novel, Mouth to Mouth<\/em><\/a> was featured on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List, was a finalist for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance Golden Poppy Award, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada, and was a finalist for the Prix Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n

Antoine is also the author of the novels The Interloper<\/em><\/a> and Panorama City<\/em><\/a>. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review<\/em>, Quarterly West<\/em>, and Best New American Voices<\/em>, among other publications. He is a contributing editor at A Public Space<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He received the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the San Fernando Valley Award for Fiction, and his work has been a finalist for The National Magazine Award, the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, and the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award.<\/p>\n

He has taught writing at the University of Iowa, the University of California San Diego, the University of California Los Angeles Extension Writers’ Program, Stanford Continuing Studies, and the Otis School of Art and Design.<\/p>\n

Born in Montreal and raised in California and Saudi Arabia, he lives with his family in Los Angeles. He can be found on Instagram at @theantoinewilson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: Noah Stone Antoine Wilson‘s most recent novel,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1712","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1XK5s-rC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":632,"url":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/the-interloper-page\/blurbs-reviews-and-lists\/","url_meta":{"origin":1712,"position":0},"title":"The Interloper Reviews","date":"August 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"***One of The L Magazine's Books of the Decade.*** As assured and sumptuously written as any first novel I've encountered--Antoine Wilson's prose sings and the story he tells here is both clever and compelling. This is writing at its very best. T.C. 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Written in an astonishingly charming and wise voice, Oppen\u2019s account traces\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":700,"url":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/about\/","url_meta":{"origin":1712,"position":5},"title":"About","date":"August 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"[author photo] [unretouched author photo] My full name is Antoine Leonide Thomas Wilson. I was born in Montreal, in 1971. I grew up for the most part in Southern California, with spells in Central California and Saudi Arabia. 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