N. Scott Momaday
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N. Scott
Momaday is a poet, a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, a playwright, a
painter and photographer, a storyteller, and a professor of English and
American literature. He is Native American (Kiowa), and among his chief
interests are Native American art and oral tradition. In 2007, he
received the National Medal of Arts ™for his writings and his work that
celebrate and preserve Native American art and oral tradition.∫ In
addition to the National Medal of Arts, he has received the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn; a
Guggenheim Fellowship; a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award;
the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement; the
Premio Letterario Internazionale ™Mondello,∫ Italy's highest literary
award; the Saint Louis Literary Award; the Premio Fronterizo, the
highest award of the Border Book Festival; the 2008 Oklahoma Humanities
Award; and the 2003 Autry Center for the American West Humanities Award.
UNESCO named him an Artist for Peace in 2003, making him the first
American to be so honored since the United States rejoined UNESCO. He is
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds 20
honorary degrees from colleges and universities including Yale
University, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Oklahoma,
the University of Tulsa, Blaise Pascal University (France), and his
alma mater, the University of New Mexico.
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Karen Russell
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Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in The New Yorker’s debut fiction issue and on The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2009, she received the 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. Three of her short stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories volumes. Her books include St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia, which was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Stories, published in February 2013.
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Ricardo Pau-Llosa
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Ricardo Pau-Llosa has published six books
of poetry, the last four with Carnegie Mellon University Press. Among
these titles are: Parable Hunter, Cuba, Vereda Tropical, and The
Mastery Impulse. As an art critic, he has been publishing essays and
articles in numerous international journals, exhibition catalogues, and books.
He has also curated various exhibitions, served on international art
juries, and lectured widely. His primary area of focus has been Latin
American art of the last hundred years. In the fall of 2010 the Snite
Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame featured a major exhibition, Parallel
Currents: Highlights of the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art,
and published a book that analyzes the connection between the diverse aspects
of Pau-Llosa’s life as a poet, collector, critic/curator, and thinker.
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Mayra Santos-Febres
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Mayra Santos-Febres was born in Carolina, PR.
Poet, Ficton writer, and essayist her books of poetry include El orden escapado (Order Escaped), Tercer Mundo
(Third World), and Boat People. She is an essayist and fiction writer, as
well. As a short story writer she has won the Letras de Oro prize (USA, 1994),
for her collection Pez de vidrio (Glass Fish), and in 2000, Grijalbo
Mondadori in Spain published her first novel, Sirena Selena vestida de pena, which has been translated into
English as Sirena Silena. Her other
fiction titles include Cualquier
miércoles soy tuya (Any Wednesday,
I'm Yours) and Nuestra Señora de la
Noche (Our Lady of the Night). In 2005, Ediciones Callejón published her
book of essays titled Sobre piel y papel (On Skin and Paper). Widely acclaimed in her native Puerto Rico,
Santos-Febres has been visiting professor at Harvard University and Cornell
University. She was selected as one of the 100 most influential Latina American
women in 2010 by the Spanish newspaper El País and awarded a UNESCO medal the
same year. She is currently tenured professor and director of the writing
workshop at the University of Puerto Rico.
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Azar Nafisi
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Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of
the national bestseller Reading Lolita in
Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a
compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran
and how it affected one university professor and her students. The book spent
over 117 weeks on the New York Times
bestseller list and in 2009 was named as one of the “100 Best Books of the
Decade” by The Times (London).
Her most recent book, Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories, a memoir about her mother,
was published in January 2009. She is currently working on a book entitled Republic of the Imagination, which is
about the power of literature to liberate minds and peoples. Her book That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of
Exile (Yale University Press) will be published in fall 2012.
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