Jonathan Littell is a writer of multiple literary awards. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His first novel, The Kindly Ones, was published in 2002. The novel was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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It was followed by The Nightingale, published in January 2007. "The Kindly Ones" was filmed as the French film "Les Bienveillantes" by director Guillaume Canet. Littell's best-selling novel, "The Nazi Officer and His Wife", was published by Random House in 2011 to widespread acclaim.
It won the 2013 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2013 Kiriyama Prize for Excellence in Fiction. Moreover, it was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year. The novel is being developed as a movie project by DreamWorks', producer Scott Rudin.
Littell's most recent work is "The Barracks Thief", published in 2015 by Farrar Straus Giroux