Daniel Mendelsohn
The American writer and literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn has won numerous awards including the National Book Critics Circle in 2006, the French 2007 prix Médicis for foreign literature and the French Book of the Year prize (given by Lire magazine) for his book 'The Lost'. His latest works are 'An Odyssey: a Father, a Son and an Epic' (2017) and 'Three Rings' (2020). He is professor of classical literature at Bard College, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books.