Karen Russell, who visited us in Feb. 2011, is among the 2013 winners of a half a million dollar MacArthur Fellowship (announced today).
From the MacArthur website: "Karen Russell is a fiction writer whose haunting yet comic tales blend fantastical elements with psychological realism and classic themes of transformation and redemption. Setting much of her work in the Everglades of her native Florida, she depicts in lyrical, energetic prose an enchanting and forbidding landscape and delves into subcultures rarely encountered in contemporary American literature."
See more at: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/902/
More about Russell's visit to Albany with Julie Orringer: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/orringer_russell11.html
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Karen Russell, Young Novelist, Wins $500,000 MacArthur Grant!
Monday, December 5, 2011
Top Ten Lists of 2011 in the Times
Recent NYS Writers Institute Visiting Author Karen Russell's Swamplandia makes the NY Times Top Ten for 2011 as well as Janet Maslin's personal Top Ten. Other books on Maslin's list include former New York State Author Russell Banks's Lost Memory of Skin, and Walter Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs (Isaacson visited with a biography of Einstein in 2007).
Michiko Kakutani's personal list includes recent visitor Don Delillo, who has a new book of short stories, The Angel Esmerelda. Dwight Garner's picks include Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III, and a book of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, by former UAlbany Writer-in-Residence Geoff Dyer.
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