MEMBER BLOG TAG: pen/bernard malamud award
| Tuesday, May 5, 2009 7:38PM | | | | Richard Ford, Nam Le Conversation | Tags: Richard Ford, Nam Le, Bomb Magazine, World Voices Festival, PEN/Faulkner Award, PEN/Bernard Malamud Award, Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle
| | | | Sooner or later, a guy writing short stories in English is going to have to come up against Richard Ford, whose work from Rock Springs to A Multitude of Sins has proven him to be a master of the form, hence his 2001 PEN/Malamud award for excellence in short fiction. (Not to mention Ford’s novel Independence Day, which won the Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner award, and his novel The Lay of the Land, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in fiction.) For Nam Le, who was born in Vietnam, raised in Australia and completed Iowa’s notorious MFA program, that moment came Sunday afternoon at the | | | | | |
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