Where do novels come from? About writing and creativity
Where do novels come from? About writing and creativity
Tuesday, April 18, 8 p.m. – English Theater Berlin | International Center for the Performing Arts
fidicinstr. 40, 10965 Berlin
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Book tickets: 030 – 691 12 11; by email to [email protected]
Where do novels come from? About writing and creativity
Lauren Groff and Lorrie Moore
in conversation with Gregor Dotzauer
Lauren Groff is ELLEN MARIA GORRISSEN FELLOW – CLASS OF SPRING 2023 at the American Academy in Berlin. She is the author of six books of fiction, most recently the novel MATRIX (September 2021). Her work has won the Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award and the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne in France, was a three-time finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and twice for the Kirkus Prize, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, Southern Book Prize and Los Angeles Times Prize. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Gainesville, Fla.
Lorrie Moore is currently MARY ELLEN VON DER HEYDEN FELLOW IN FICTION – CLASS OF SPRING 2023 at the American Academy in Berlin. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of two collections of short stories, three novels and one children’s novel. Her new novel I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (June 2023) was listed by Time Magazine as one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023. Lorrie Moore has won numerous awards including the O. Henry Award, Irish Times International Fiction Prize, Rea Award for the Short Story and PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. She was a finalist for the Orange Prize, PEN Faulkner Award, National Book Critics’ Circle Award, Story Prize, and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. See What Can Be Done (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) is a collection of her reviews and essays, previously published in publications such as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, and The Atlantic. A recipient of an NEA, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a
Lannan Fellowship, the Berlin Prize and a Pushcart Prize, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.
Gregor Dotzauer is editor-in-chief of non-fiction at the Berliner Tagesspiegel. He studied German, philosophy and musicology in Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main before starting to write about literature and film for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 1999 he moved to the Berliner Tagesspiegel as a literary editor, where he also regularly writes on jazz and humanities topics. In 2009 he received the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism. In October 2022, Matthes & Seitz published his literary essay Sleeps a song in all things – About music, moment and memory.
In cooperation with the American Academy Berlin and the English Theater Berlin | International Center for the Performing Arts
