Ryeberg Curator Bio

Anton Piatigorsky

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Anton Piatigorsky is an award-winning writer of fiction, plays and librettos. His novels include "The Iron Bridge," a collection of short stories about 20th Century dictators as teenagers, and "Al-Tounsi," a novel telling the behind-the-scenes story of U.S. Supreme Court justices as they consider a landmark case involving the rights of detainees held in an overseas U.S. military base. His plays, which include “The Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tzaddik,” “Mysterium Tremendum,” “The Offering,” “Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension,” and “Eternal Hydra,” have earned him two Dora Mavor Moore awards, a Summerworks Prize, the 2005 Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Protégé Award for playwrighting, and numerous prize nominations. More Anton Piatigorsky here.