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Elizabeth Gaffney
Elizabeth Gaffney (born New York City, December 22, 1966) is an American novelist. She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She is the founder of the virtual writers spacThe 24-Hour Room the editor at large of the literary magazine ''A Public Space'' and was a staff editor of ''The Paris Review'' for 16 years, under George Plimpton. She teaches writing at New York University, Queens University of Charlotte, and A Public Space. Publications Novels Elizabeth Gaffney is the author of two novels published by Random House. ''Metropolis'' was published in 2005. ''When the World Was Young'' was published in 2015. Short stories Elizabeth Gaffney has published short stories in various literary magazines including Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Conjunctions and Michigan Quarterly Review The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lawrence Prize For Fiction
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Vassar College Alumni
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American Women Novelists
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21st-century American Novelists
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1966 Births
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Ika Hügel-Marshall
Erika "Ika" Hügel-Marshall (13 March 1947 – 21 April 2022) was a German author and activist. She was active in the Afro-German women's movement organization ADEFRA (Afro-Deutsche Frauen). Her autobiography, ''Daheim unterwegs. Ein deutsches Leben'' (published in English as ''Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany''), discusses racism in Germany and her search for a family identity. She was influenced by and praised the work of her friend, American activist Audre Lorde. She and her partner Dagmar Schultz worked with Lorde. Hügel-Marshall was born to a German mother and African-American father, whom she did not meet until she was 46. She experienced severe racism as a child, especially during her time in an orphanage. She studied well and helped to modernize a children's home in Frankfurt am Main. In the 1980s she helped establish the Afro-Deutsch movement and became interested in Lorde's work. ''Daheim unterwegs'' was published in 1998 and has been described as highligh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Growing Up Black In Germany
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Zoë Jenny
Zoë Jenny (born 1974 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. Her first novel, '' The Pollen Room'', was published in German in 1997 and has been translated into 27 languages. She lived in London. In 2008, she married Matthew Homfray, a British veterinary surgeon and pharmaceuticals consultant. Her newest novel, ''The Sky is Changing'', was her first written in English and was published by Legend Press in June 2010. She was awarded the Aspekte-Literaturpreis. Jenny lives in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST .... Bibliography * * * * * * For children * Written in English * English translations * References External links * 1974 births Living people Swiss women novelists 20th-century Swiss novelists German-language writers 21st-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hettche
Thomas Hettche (born 30 November 1964 in Treis, Hesse) is a German author. Hettche completed his ''Abitur'' at the Liebigschule Giessen, He studied German studies and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his PhD in philosophy. ''What We Are Made Of'', an English translation by Shaun Whiteside of Hettche's novel ''Woraus wir gemacht sind'' (2006), was published by Picador in Britain in July 2008, and in the United States in October 2010.Pitt, David (15 September 2010). "What We Are Made Of" (review). ''Booklist''. p. 33. Retrieved via ''Biography In Context'' database, 6 May 2019. Since 2018, he has been honorary professor at the TU Berlin. Hettche lives in Berlin. Awards * 1990 Rauris Literature Prize * 2014 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize * 2015 Solothurner Literaturpreis * 2018 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis * 2019 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis Memberships * 1999 PEN Centre Germany * 2019 Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan Quarterly Review
The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The quarterly (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to its Web site. Starting in 1979, with a special issue on the subject of "The Moon Landing and Its Aftermath", one issue each year is given over entirely to a special theme. MQR's special issues include "The Automobile and American Culture," "Detroit: An American City," "Contemporary American Fiction," "The Female Body," "The Male Body," and "Bridges to Cuba". In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, David M. Halperin, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Sergio Troncoso, Elizabeth Gaffney, Bon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
