Which short story writer do you think deserves way more recognition than they currently get

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Some short story writers achieve genuinely widespread recognition, becoming staples of school curriculums and literary anthologies everywhere, while others produce work of an equally high standard but somehow remain relatively obscure outside of dedicated literary circles, often for reasons that have very little to do with the actual quality of their writing and far more to do with timing, marketing, translation availability, or simply which specific literary trends happened to be fashionable when their work was first published.

Discovering an underrated short story writer can feel like a genuinely exciting personal find precisely because so few other people seem to have encountered them, even though their work might genuinely stand shoulder to shoulder with far more famous names in the same genre or tradition. Who is the short story writer you think genuinely deserves significantly more recognition than they currently get, and what should someone read first to understand why?

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