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Amina Cain
Amina Cain is an American writer, best known for her 2020 novel '' Indelicacy''. __NOTOC__ Writing Cain began writing in her last year as an undergraduate. Cain lived in Chicago during the mid-2000s and later moved to Los Angeles, where she continues to live as of 2020. Writers who have influenced Cain's work include Lydia Davis. Other writers Cain has expressed an "affinity toward" include Marguerite Duras, Renee Gladman, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, and Kate Zambreno. Honors ''Indelicacy'' was shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize __NOTOC__ The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel. From 2006 to 2011, it was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Pri ... and for the 2021 Folio Prize. Bibliography Novels * '' Indelicacy'' (2020) Short story collections * ''Creature'' (2013) References Living people American women n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Indelicacy (novel)
''Indelicacy'' is a 2020 novel by American writer Amina Cain. The novel follows the life of its narrator, Vitória, from shortly before her marriage until shortly after its dissolution. Writing, composition, and background The novel took Cain four years to write. The novel is partially set in an unnamed museum and for inspiration, Cain visited the National Gallery in London and the Frick Collection in New York City. The city in which the novel takes place also never receives a name, and Cain has referred to it as "a combination of Chicago, London, and then some imagined place". Cain had several drafts for the novel, and has referred to earlier versions of the book as "terrible". Reception Critical reception Isabel Berwick, writing in a review for the ''Financial Times'', referred to the novel as " ..a strange, short, beguiling book." This sentiment was echoed in ''The New Yorker'', which called the book "sparse" and "elliptical". Berwick grouped Cain's work with that of Jenny Of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = U.S. state, State , subdivision_type2 = List of counties in Illinois, Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook County, Illinois, Cook and DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Municipal corporation, Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council government, Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor of Chicago, Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including '' Swann’s Way'' by Marcel Proust and ''Madame Bovary'' by Gustave Flaubert. Early life and education Davis was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1947. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis, a critic and professor of English, and Hope Hale Davis, a short-story writer, teacher, and memoirist. Davis initially "studied music—first piano, then violin—which was her first love." On becoming a writer, Davis has said, "I was probably always headed to being a writer, even though that wasn't my first love. I guess I must have always wanted to write in some part of me or I wouldn't have done it." She attended high school at The Putney School, Class of 1965. She studied at Barnard Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film '' Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Early life and education Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two older brothers: Pierre, the elder, and Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renee Gladman
Renee Gladman (born 1971) is a poet, novelist, essayist, and artist. She has published prose works including the Ravicka series of novels and the crime novel, ''Morelia''; the poetry collection, ''Calamities''; and a monograph of drawings, ''Prose Architectures''. Career Gladman is a graduate of Vassar College (BA, 1993), and studied poetics at the New College of California (MA, 2006). She taught creative writing for many years at Brown University, served as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and was a 2016 Image Text fellow at Ithaca College. Her writing is associated with the New Narrative movement, characterized by writing that "tests the potential of the sentence with map-making precision and curiosity." In 2016 she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists, which supported the publication of ''Prose Architectures''. As a publisher, Gladman has been responsible for the zine ''Clamour'' (1996-1999), the Leroy Chapbook seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is an Iranian-American writer. She won a 2015 Whiting Award, and the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Life She graduated from Brown University; and University of California, San Diego. She teaches at University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu .... Her interviews appear in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books.'' She married Leonardo Francalanci. Works * * * References Living people PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners American people of Iranian descent 21st-century American women writers Brown University alumni University of California, San Diego alumni University of Notre Dame alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-fiction-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno (born December 30, 1977) is an American novelist, essayist, critic, and professor. She teaches writing in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and at Sarah Lawrence College. Zambreno is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. Education Zambreno studied journalism at Northwestern University. While an undergraduate, Zambreno was involved in experimental theater companies and was a theater critic for campus publications. An early influence as Cynthia Carr’s ''Village Voice'"On Edge" columns where she learned about the work of Karen Finley, David Wojnarowicz, and Kathy Acker. After college she wrote about performance and theater for Chicago-based publications, and worked as an editor at the alt-weekly ''Newcity''. In 2001-2002 she studied performance theory in the MAPH program at the University of Chicago, and wrote her masters thesis supervised by Lauren Berlant. She has spoken of Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Virginia Woolf, Sarah Kane, Marguerit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center For Fiction First Novel Prize
__NOTOC__ The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel. From 2006 to 2011, it was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize in honor of John Turner Sargent, Sr., and, from 2011 to 2014, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, named after Center for Fiction board member Nancy Dunnan and her journalist father Ray W. Flaherty. Publishers nominate English-language works by first-time United States novelists. '' Poets & Writers Poets & Writers, Inc. is one of the largest nonprofit literary organizations in the United States serving poets, fiction ...
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Folio Prize
The Rathbones Folio Prize, previously known as the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, is a literary award that was sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society for its first two years, 2014–2015. Starting in 2017 the sponsor is Rathbone Investment Management. Folio Prize The prize came into being after a group in Britain "took umbrage at the direction they saw the Booker Prize taking – they saw it leaning toward popular fiction rather than literary fiction." The media compared the prize as a rival of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood said the Folio Prize is "much needed in a world in which money is increasingly becoming the measure of all things." Mark Haddon said it was "not a mechanism for generating publicity by propelling a single book into the spotlight but a celebration of literary fiction as a whole." The co-founders are Andrew Kidd and Kate Harvey. The Folio Prize during the first two years was presented to an English-language book of fiction publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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