Lydia Davis, New York State Writers Institute Fellow and recent winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, will conduct a fiction master class workshop for community writers during the fall 2013 semester. The focus will be on detailed discussion of students' work, but there may also be assigned exercises and/or readings from published novels or short stories to broaden the discussion of topics such as character, plot, style, and form. The workshop is intended for advanced writers - writers who have significant publications in literary journals. It will be an intensive five-session workshop held in the month of October.
The workshop is not-for-credit and will be held at the University at Albany's uptown campus.
Admission to the workshop is based on the submission of writing samples.
Complete information on the workshop and submission guidelines may be obtained
by calling the Institute at 518-442-5620 or by visiting the Institute's website
at:
Lydia Davis, fiction
writer, translator, and UAlbany professor, has received wide acclaim for her
extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. She has been called
"one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles
Times Book Review), "an American virtuoso of the short story
form" (Salon), and "one of the best writers in America" (O
Magazine). In the spring of 2013 Davis received the Man Booker
International Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in the world of
literature. The award is given every two years to authors of any nationality in
order to recognize an outstanding body of work in English or available in
English translation.
Her newest book, which
earned rave reviews, is The Collected Stories (2009), a
compilation of stories from four previously published volumes including Varieties
of Disturbance (2007), Samuel Johnson is Indignant (2001), Almost
No Memory (1997) and Break it Down (1986). Davis
received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2003. A Chevalier of the Order of
Arts and Letters in France, Davis is also one of the most respected translators
into English of French literary fiction by Proust and Flaubert, among others.
Davis first received
serious critical attention for her collection of stories, "Break It
Down," which was selected as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. The
book's positive critical reception helped Davis win a Whiting Writer's Award in
1988
For additional
information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620, or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
