Pauls Toutonghi

{{short description|American novelist}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Pauls Harijs Toutonghi

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1976}}

| birth_place = Seattle, Washington

| occupation = {{Cslist|Academic| writer}}

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| alma_mater = {{plainlist|

• Middlebury College BA
• Cornell University PhD

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| spouse = Peyton Marshall

| children = 2

| awards = Pushcart Prize, 2000

| years_active = 2000—present

| website = {{URL|paulstoutonghi.com/}}

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Pauls Harijs Toutonghi (born 1976)[https://www.amazon.com/Live-Cargo-Paul-Toutonghi/dp/1931982198 Live Cargo ... by Paul Toutonghi] Amazon.com Retrieved December 23, 2023. is a first-generation American fiction and non-fiction writer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, to immigrant parents. His mother emigrated from Latvia, his father emigrated from Egypt and was of Syrian descent.{{Cite magazine |last=Toutonghi |first=Pauls |date=2017-02-28 |title=Leaving Aleppo |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/leaving-aleppo |access-date=2024-01-02 |issn=0028-792X}}{{Cite web |last=Stevens |first=Krista |date=2017-03-06 |title=Leaving Aleppo: 'A distant star / Exhausts its light on the sleep of the dead.' |url=http://longreads.com/2017/03/06/leaving-aleppo-a-distant-star-exhausts-its-light-on-the-sleep-of-the-dead/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Longreads |language=en-US}}

His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books in 2006.{{Cite news|last=Langer|first=Adam|date=2012-01-04|title=Stumbling Through an American Muslim Maze|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/books/american-dervish-by-ayad-akhtar-review.html|access-date=2020-09-10|issn=0362-4331}} His second, Evel Knievel Days, was published by Random House/Crown in 2012.{{Cite news|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|date=2018-04-04|title=Drue Heinz, Patron of Literature and Host of Authors, Dies at 103|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/obituaries/drue-heinz-a-philanthropist-of-literature-dies-at-103.html|access-date=2020-09-10|issn=0362-4331}}

Red Weather was widely—and favorably—reviewed.{{cite web |title=East Meets Midwest (Published 2006) |website=The New York Times |date=4 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928061536/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04swift.html?pagewanted=print |archive-date=2021-09-28 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04swift.html?pagewanted=print}} Toutonghi has published work in Sports Illustrated, The Burnside Review, Glimmer Train, The Boston Review, One Story Magazine, and The New Yorker.[https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/could-harvesting-fog-help-solve-the-worlds-water-crisis Could Harvesting Fog Help Solve the World’s Water Crisis?] His story, "Regeneration" won a Pushcart Prize in 2000.[https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/pauls-toutonghi/ Pauls Toutonghi], The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved December 23, 2023. His 2016 non-fiction narrative, Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home, was the source for the 2023 Netflix film, Dog Gone.{{cite web|last1=D'Alessandro|first1=Anthony|title=Rob Lowe To EP & Star In Netflix Family Film 'Dog Gone'|url=https://deadline.com/2021/08/rob-lowe-to-ep-star-netflix-family-film-dog-gone-1234809998/|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=August 5, 2021|access-date= December 23, 2023|archive-date=August 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806021801/https://deadline.com/2021/08/rob-lowe-to-ep-star-netflix-family-film-dog-gone-1234809998/|url-status=live}}

Toutonghi received his MFA in poetry from Cornell University in 2003, followed by a PhD in English Literature in 2006. After his first novel was published, he moved from Brooklyn, New York to Portland, Oregon, where he now teaches as a Professor of English at Lewis and Clark College, specializing in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing.[https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/58-pauls-toutonghi Pauls Toutonghi] Lewis & Clark College. Retrieved December 23, 2023.