Tony Eprile is a South African writer.

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Tony Eprile was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1955 to Jewish parents.^[1][2] He emigrated with his parents to the United States between 1970 and 1972 and as of 2004^[update] lives in Vermont.^[3][4]

He has taught at Northwestern University, Williams College, Bennington College, Lesley University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.^[5]

Eprile is the author of the 1989 book Temporary Sojourner and Other South African Stories,^[6] which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.^[7]

His 2004 book The Persistence of Memory^[3][8][9] won the Koret Jewish Book Award.^[10] The novel was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was listed as a best book of 2004 by The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.^{[citation needed]}