Bruce Benderson is a writer, best known for his memoir The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, which won France’s prestigious literary award, the Prix de Flore, in translation. He is also the author of the novel User and the story collection Pretending to Say No.
Benderson writes in both English and French, and many of his books have been republished in translation. He is a literary translator from the French of Alain Robbe-Grillet, David Foenkinos, Paul (formerly Béatrix) Preciado, Virginie Despentes, and many others.
He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, nest, French Vogue, among others, and had a monthly column for the French gay magazine Têtu.
His novel User was re-released in 2023, and a 800-page collection of all his short texts, entitled Urban Gothic, was published by Itna Press.
