January 8, 2019
At the 76th Golden Globe Awards, two films by Alumni were nominated, Green Book, directed and co-written by writing alumnus Peter Farrelly '86 and Ralph Breaks the Internet co-directed and co-written by film alumnus Phil Johnston '04.
read moreDecember 17, 2018
Over the past couple of weeks, Writing students, faculty and alumni have been busy publishing new work.
read moreDecember 11, 2018
Associate Professor Susan Bernofsky is set to receive the Modern Language Association’s Lois Ruth Award for her translation of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, published by New Directions.
read moreDecember 7, 2018
Your Duck Is My Duck, written by Professor Deborah Eisenberg, was on the Best Books of 2018 list in Bookforum December 2018 edition.
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The New York Times’s staff critics gave their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year and three Columbia writers were among those named.
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The New York Times Style Magazine’s current issue features a piece recognizing 32 black American male writers who are “producing literature that is essential to how we understand our country and its place in the world right now.
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Current Student Simon Leser '19 won the PEN America Translation Grant for his translation of Of Our Wounded Brothers by Joseph Andras.
read moreNovember 15, 2018
Fiction professor and alumna Sigrid Nunez '75 won the 2018 National Book Award in fiction for her latest novel The Friend.
read moreOctober 18, 2018
Current student Erica Stisser was named a winner of the 2018 William Faulkner Literary Prize for her short story, “A Vague Recollection.
read moreOctober 12, 2018
Fiction and translation alumna Elina Alter '16 has been selected as a 2018 ALTA Travel Fellow by The American Literary Translators Association.
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