Who wrote the short story on which the 2006 film 'Brokeback Mountain was based?
Brokeback Mountain (short story) Brokeback Mountain (short story) "Brokeback Mountain" is a short story by American author Annie Proulx. It was originally published in "The New Yorker" on October 13, 1997, for which it won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1998. Proulx won a third place O. Henry Award for the story in 1998. A slightly expanded version of the story was published in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, "". The collection was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana adapted the story for the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain". At that time, the
Brokeback Mountain (short story) Opera and they started working together in 2008, completing it in 2012. The work premiered at the Teatro Real in Madrid on 28 January 2014. The film's popularity has inspired numerous viewers to write their own versions of the story and send these to Proulx. In 2008, Proulx said she wished she had never written the 1997 short story which inspired the film, because she has received so much fan fiction presenting alternative plots: She said the authors, mostly men who claim to "understand men better than I do", often send her their works: Brokeback Mountain (short story) "Brokeback Mountain"