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David Bezmozgis (born 1973) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.

Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. In 1999, his first documentary, a 25-minute film called L.A. Mohel, won a major award for student filmmakers.

His first published book is Natasha and Other Stories (2004, ISBN 0-374-28141-6). Stories from that collection first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's and Zoetrope All-Story.

His story "Natasha," which originally appeared in Harper's, was included in the Best American Short Stories 2005 collection; his story "New Gravestone for an Old Grave," which originally appeared in Zoetrope, will be included in the 2006 Best American Stories collection.

Natasha and Other Stories was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2007, where it was championed by Steven Page.

In 2008 he completed his first feature film Victoria Day which he wrote and directed. The film stars Mark Rendall.The film had its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

David is a 2010 New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, where he will be working on The Betrayers, a novel about a famous Russian Jewish dissident who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, meets the man who denounced him.

Bezmozgis is among The New Yorker magazine's 2010 top 20 fiction writers under the age of 40. The story "The Train of Their Departure," which the magazine featured in August 2010, is an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Free World, set for release in April 2011.

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