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Julie Orringer (born June 12, 1973) is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. She is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestseller, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories; her novel, The Flight Portfolio, tells the story of Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo. The novel inspired the forthcoming Netflix series Transatlantic.

Career
Julie Orringer received her BA in English from Cornell University and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the winner of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She teaches Fiction at New York University and the Stanford University Stanford in New York Program. In the past she has also taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, University of Michigan, St. Mary's College, California College of the Arts, and Stanford University.

Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Scribner Anthology of American Short Fiction, as well as The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Non-Required Reading.

She received the Paris Review'''s Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, The Yale Review Editors' Prize, Ploughshares' Cohen Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the Anne and Robert Cowan Award from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.  She was the recipient of a 2004–5 NEA grant for The Invisible Bridge. The novel is based on the experiences of her family in the Holocaust and World War 2, including her grand-uncle Alfred Tibor, who later became a well-known sculptor.

Literary works
  How to Breathe Underwater contains nine short stories, many of them about characters submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general.  In "Pilgrims," a band of motherless children torment each other on Thanksgiving day.  In "The Isabel Fish," the sole survivor of a drowning accident takes up scuba diving.  In "When She is Old and I am Famous," a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty.  In "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones," the failure of religious and moral codes—to protect, to comfort, to offer solace—is seen through the eyes of a group of Orthodox Jewish adolescents discovering the irresistible power of their sexuality. How to Breathe Underwater is a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Northern California Book Award and Cowan Writers' Award, Jewish Community Endowment (2006).

  Julie Orringer's first novel was the winner of the Wallant Award (University of Hartford, 2010), and named a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize (University of Edinburgh, 2011), Orange Prize (2011), Sami Rohr Prize (2011), and the First Novel Prize, Center for Fiction, New York (2010).  The Invisible Bridge is the story of a young Hungarian-Jewish student who leaves Budapest in 1937 to study architecture in Paris. There he meets and falls in love with a ballet teacher.  The student and ballet teacher are then caught up in the second world war with their families and struggle to survive. It was a New York Times Notable Book (2010) and named a Best Book of 2010 by The San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly.
 The Flight Portfolio is a novel based on the true story of Varian Fry, an American journalist who, in 1940, went to occupied Europe to help rescue Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust. It received the Association of Jewish Libraries Award (2020), and was named a finalist for the American Library in Paris Book Award (2019). The novel also inspired the forthcoming Netflix series Transatlantic.https://www.thewrap.com/corey-stoll-gillian-jacobs-cory-michael-smith-transatlantic-netflix-cast

Translations

Bulgarian
 Nevidimijat Most, trans. Katya Perchinkova, Entusiast, Bulgaria, 2012
French
 Comment respirer sous l'eau, 2005
Finnish
 Näkymätön Silta, trans. Kristiina Savikurki, Otava, Finland, 2011
German
 Unter Wasser atmen, 2005
 Die unsichtbare Brücke, 2011,
Italian
 Quando ho imparato a respirare sott'acqua, 2004,
 Il ponte invisible, trans. Cristiana Mennella and Alessandra Montruccio, Einaudi, Italy, 2012
Dutch
 Ademhalen onder water, 2004
 De onzichtbare brug, 2010,
Japanese
 How to Breathe Underwater, 2006
 The Invisible Bridge, trans. Tomoko Kawazoe, Random House Kodansha, Japan 2012
Korean
 The Invisible Bridge, trans. Kim Moon, Minumsa, Korea 2012
Hungarian
 Láthatatlan Híd, 2011,
 Üldözöttek gyüjteménye, Libri Kiado, Hungary, 2020
Norwegian
 Puste Under Vann, trans. Linn Øverås, Gyldendal, Norway, 2006
 Den usynlige broen, trans. Kari and Kjell Risvik, Gyldendal, Norway, 2011
Spanish
 Cómo respirar bajo el agua, trans. Esther Roig, Lumen, Spain, 2007
 El Puente Invisible, 2010.
Portuguese
 Como Respirar Debaixo d'Agua, trans. Luciano Machado, Companhia das Letras, Brazil, 2006
 A ponte invisível, trans. Rubens Figueiredo, Companhia das Letras, Brazil, 2011
 A ponte invisível, trans. Maria Beatriz Sequeira, Civilização, Portugal, 2010
Hebrewהגשר הנסתר  The Invisible Bridge, 2012.
 HaGesher Hanestar, trans. Dina Elazar-Halevi Kineret, Israel, 2011
SwedishDen osynliga bron'', 2012.
Polish
 Niewidzialny Most, trans. Nina Dzierżawska, Czarna Owca, Poland, 2013
 Portfolio Ocalonych Artystôw, Czarna Owca, Poland, 2020
UK/Commonwealth
 How to Breathe Underwater, Viking/Penguin UK, 2004
 The Invisible Bridge, Viking/Penguin, UK, 2010
 The Flight Portfolio, Dialogue Books, UK, 2022

References

External links
Official site

https://www.thewrap.com/corey-stoll-gillian-jacobs-cory-michael-smith-transatlantic-netflix-cast/

21st-century American novelists
American women short story writers
American women novelists
Cornell University alumni
1973 births
Living people
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Novelists from Florida
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American short story writers
Brooklyn College faculty

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Barbershop Bootcamp comes to Waterloo!
August 19, 2014 established the very first Barbershop Bootcamp hosted by Grand Harmony Chorus. It was a great way for our current members to relearn good vocal habits and educate potential members and guests about a cappella music, barbershop history and terms, riser placement, and choreography. We finished the education class, putting it all into practice, by learning and singing a new tag! Half a dozen women pre-registered for the boot camp and over double attended! It was great to share our risers with these enthusiastic women and we hope to see more of them soon.
We welcome all interested women to come to our open rehearsals on Tuesdays nights, 7PM - 10PM at Parkwood Mennonite Home, 726 New Hampshire Street in Waterloo. We love an audience but encourage participation!
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GHC Makes Valentines Day Special
On Friday, February 14 Grand Harmony Chorus sent a large quartet out to deliver singing valentines in the KW/Cambridge/Elmira area. They delighted and surprised more than just those who were the recipients of the valentines but those in earshot of the delivery as well. They sang in offices, coffee shops, classrooms, and assemblies and loved delivering each one! You can see one of the performances by clicking here.
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Total Woman Show a Great Event for GHC
What a fantastic weekend Grand Harmony Chorus had at the Total Woman Show on February 8 & 9, 2014 at the Bingemans Conference Centre. We had many women stop by our booth for a chance to win a Singing Valentine, get serenaded by some of our quartets, purchase mint smoothies to support our not-for-profit group, or make inquiries about our chorus. The ladies of GHC also surprised The Cocktail Deeva, the host of Ask the Man, by doing a singing flash mob on Saturday afternoon; what a surprise for the host and a very appreciative audience! Grand Harmony Chorus wants to thank Simon and the support team of the Total Woman Show for allowing us to perform on stage as well as around our booth.
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Grand Harmony Has A New Web Site
Grand Harmony Chorus is thrilled to announce that it has a brand new web site! As part of the chorus' reinvention, we have brought our presence on the Internet into the 21st century with an overhauled web site and a new domain: www.grandharmonychorus.com.
Be sure to come back often for new photos, recent events, and updates on future performances. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube by clicking on the buttons in the Follow Us section at the bottom of each page.
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The last week in January was designated Open House Week for choruses throughout the Sweet Adelines organization, and Grand Harmony Chorus was happy to participate in the event. The members had the opportunity to learn a brand new song along with their guests. By the end of an hour-long learning session within the different voice-part section rehearsals, the members came together and sang a full arrangement of the song "Fame!"
Guests joined in with all aspects of the evening, from vocal warmups to learning a tag, in addition to learning the new song. At the end of the evening they were treated to a short performance by the chorus, and finished the evening with some refreshments and socializing with other chorus members.
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The chorus worked on two songs throughout the weekend in preparation for their Regional contest, to be held in Dearborn Michigan at the end of April. Kerry brought the best out of the ladies, coaching them in vocal production techniques and musical interpretation.
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Christmas Cabaret
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In addition to the chorus, there were also four quartets who performed throughout the show, adding their own unique spin on Christmas classics. With 14 of the 16 quartet members hailing from within the chorus, they demonstrated the depth of talent with the chorus.
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New Yorker Magazine - August 17, 1981 - Cover by Charles Saxon
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Cover artist: Charles Saxon
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