Nickolas Butler

About

Nickolas Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His first novel was the internationally best-selling and prize-winning Shotgun Lovesongs, which has been optioned for film development and has been translated into over ten languages. Beneath the Bonfire, a collection of short stories, followed a year later. In 2017, he published The Hearts of Men which was short-listed for two of France’s most prestigious literary prizes even before its American publishing. In 2019, his fourth book, Little Faith was published to critical acclaim. Butler published Godspeed in 2021, a literary thriller set in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that was longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award. His latest, A Forty Year Kiss is a small-town love-story set in Chippewa Falls, WI.

Nickolas Butler lives on sixteen acres of land adjacent to a buffalo farm. He and his wife have two children.

Awards

2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awad, Winner
2018 Friends of American Writers Literary Award
2016 Prix Medicis Estranger (short-listed)
2016 Prix Femina (short-listed)
2015 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award
2015 UW-Whitewater Chancellor's Regional Literary Award
2014 PAGE Prix America
2014 Great Lakes Great Reads Award
2014 Midwest Independent Booksellers Award
2014 Flaherty Dunnan Award for First Novel (long-listed)
2014 FNAC Prix (short-listed)