Writing

Richard Howard Wins Translation Prize from the French-American Foundation
Writing professor Richard Howard was named one of the three winners of this year's French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation’s 25th Annual Translation Prize, which recognizes superior English translations of French works published in 2011. Howard won for his translation of When the World Spoke French by Marc Fumaroli.
Thesis Anthology 2012 Is Published

Columbia University School of the Arts congratulates all the Writing Program students whose work is featured in the 2012 Thesis Anthology.

The Anthology contains excerpts and samples of fiction, nonfiction and poetry written by the Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program, Class of 2012. The book's design was conceived and coordinated by Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse.

Faculty Stacey D'Erasmo Wins 2012 Lambda Literary Award

Faculty Stacey D'Erasmo was honored with the 2012 Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, which is presented annually at the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony. The award, made possible by James Duggins, PhD, consists of two cash prizes of $5,000. The Lambda Literary Foundation nurtures, celebrates, and preserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers.

Faculty Richard Ford Publishes His New Novel 'Canada'
Faculty Richard Ford's highly anticipated novel Canada was released in May 2012, and received high praise from Michiko Katutani of The New York Times, who described it as "a powerful new novel." USA Today hails Ford's writing as "heartbreaking," The Daily Beast calls Canada Ford's best novel in years and author
Alumna Karen Russell Receives NYPL's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award

The New York Public Library named Fiction alumna Karen Russell ('06 SOA) as the winner of 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award for her debut novel, Swamplandia! The award includes a prize of $10,000, and is awarded to an American writer 35-years-old or younger for a published novel or a short story collection.

Work by Donald Antrim
Summer Reading: Six Books by Writing Program Alumni
Several Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program alumni have recent or forthcoming book releases. Here's a sampling of some of the fiction and nonfiction debuts of 2012.
Poetry Alumna Tracy K. Smith ('97 SOA) Wins Pulitzer Prize

Columbia University School of the Arts announced today that Writing Program alumna Tracy K. Smith (’97) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 2011).

Writing Program Launches Literary Exchange Program, Word For Word
Word for Word: Columbia University School of the Arts Writers Collaborate with German Writers in a Pilot Exchange Program in Literary Translation
Faculty Heidi Julavits Publishes Her New Novel THE VANISHERS
Faculty Heidi Julavits publishes her new novel The Vanishers from Doubleday Books, due out on March 13, 2012.  The Vanishers  is a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another, chronicling the paranormal warfare between a young psychic and her mentor. This is Julavits' fourth novel.
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