Stuart Dybek Reading presented by the ICWT
Department: Intl. Center for Writing and Trans.
Date and Time: November 1, 2010 | 8:00 PM-9:00 PMEvent Location: 1030 Humanities Gateway
Event Details
Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction: I Sailed With Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods. Both I Sailed With Magellan and The Coast of Chicago were New York Times Notable Books, and The Coast of Chicago was a One Book One Chicago selection. Dybek has also published two collections of poetry: Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Poetry, Tin House, and many other magazines, and have been widely anthologized, including work in both Best American Fiction and Best American Poetry.
Among Dybek’s numerous awards are a PEN/Malamud Prize “for distinguished achievement in the short story,” a Lannan Award, a Whiting Writers Award, an Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, several O.Henry Prizes, and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2007, Dybek was awarded the a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact icwt@uci.edu or (949) 824-1948. Co-sponsored by the MFA Programs in Writing.