Tony Eprile is a South African and American writer. His 2004 novel, The Persistence of Memory, won the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2005. Eprile is the author of the 1989 book Temporary Sojourner and Other South African Stories, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
He has taught at Northwestern University, Williams College, Bennington College, Lesley University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Eprile has also published guest columns, book reviews, literary criticism and interviews with writers for titles such as The New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, Tablet and The Johannesburg Review of Books. He acts as an Editorial Advisory Panel member for The Johannesburg Review of Books with Antjie Krog and Lauren Beukes, among others.
Current activities include writing about the environment, moderating a panel on mitigating human and dangerous animal interactions (specifically, lions in Botswana with the Director of CLAWS, Botswana), teaching a seminar on Observation and Creativity at Williams College.