조너선 리섬

소개

조너선 앨런 리섬(영어: Jonathan Allen Lethem, 1964년 2월 19일 ~ )은 미국의 SF 소설가이다. 데뷔작인 장편소설 《총, 그리고 행사 음악》이 로커스상을 수상하고 네뷸러상 후보에 올라 유명해졌다. 이후 《고독의 요새》, 《머더리스 브루클린》 등의 베스트셀러를 냈다. 뉴스위크 선정 '21세기를 이끌 100인'에 소설가로서는 유일하게 지목되었다.

Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.