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| Adam Haslett |
Adam Haslett , adjunct assistant professor with the School of the Arts' writing division, has been selected to receive the 19 th annual PEN/Malamud Award, which he shares with writer Tobias Wolff. Given annually since 1988 in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, this award recognizes a body of work which demonstrates excellence in the art of short fiction. The prize is awarded jointly to a writer at the beginning of a literary career and a more established writer, replicating Bernard Malamud's relationship as a master writer to younger writers.
Haslett gained national attention in 2002 when his debut collection of short stories, You Are Not a Stranger Here, (Random House), was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and won the PEN/Winship Award.
You Are Not a Stranger Here portrays the human condition and brings readers into the lives of rich and diverse characters ranging from an aging inventor still burning with ideas as he makes a final visit to his gay son, to an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence.
Described as "courageous and compelling as any in today's fiction" by Library Journal, Haslett's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker,The Nation, Zoetrope and Best American Short Stories, 2003, as well as National Public Radio's Selected Shorts.
He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Yale Law School and has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Michener/Copernicus Society of America. He lives in New York City, where he works part-time as a legal consultant and teaches a graduate creative writing workshop at Columbia's School of the Arts. Haslett also is a current Guggenheim Fellow.
The PEN/Malamud Award includes a Memorial Reading in the 2006/07 PEN/Faulkner reading series at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a prize of $5,000, which will be shared by Wolff and Haslett. |
