Melvin Jules Bukiet

|nationality=American |awards=Edward Lewis Wallant Award (1992) |signature=Bukiet signature.jpg }} Melvin Jules Bukiet is an American author and literary critic. He has written a number of novels, including ''Sandman's Dust'', ''After'', ''While the Messiah Tarries'', ''Signs and Wonders'', ''Strange Fire'', and ''A Faker's Dozen''. He edited the collections ''Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex'', ''Nothing Makes You Free'', and ''Scribblers on the Roof''. He won the 1992 Edward Lewis Wallant Award.

Bukiet based his play "Runts" on the Sarah Lawrence 'sex cult' scandal. He told the ''New York Times'' that university administrators were likely to be upset by the play, but he was relying on his tenure to remain on the faculty.

The son of Holocaust survivors, Bukiet argued in a 2001 book that Holocaust writing should be the domain of survivors and their descendants. He later recanted that notion, saying "I think everybody should write about it". Bukiet noted that the term 'genocide' was coined by Raphael Lemkin to describe the Holocaust. Bukiet described the popularization of the word 'genocide' to describe Israel's response to the October 7 Hamas-led attacks as "remarkable and repulsive". Provided by Wikipedia