The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.

The Best Short Stories 2022- The O. Henry Prize Winners-continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence-contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luisellihas brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation fromBengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.

THE WINNING STORIES-

Screen Time, byAlejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

The Wolves of Circassia, byDaniel Mason

Mercedes’s Special Talent, byTere Davila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed

Rainbows, byJoseph O'Neill

A Way with Bea, byShanteka Sigers

Seams, byOlga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft

The Little Widow from the Capital, byYohanca Delgado

Lemonade, byEshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

Breastmilk, by'Pemi Aguda

The Old Man of Kusumpur, byAmar Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta

Where They Always Meet, byChristos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich

Fish Stories, byJanika Oza

Horse Soup, byVladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Max Lawton

Clean Teen, byFrancisco Gonzalez

Dengue Boy, byMichel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Zikora, byChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Apples, byGunnhild yehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

Warp and Weft, byDavid Ryan

Face Time, byLorrie Moore

An Unlucky Man, bySamanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell