Lannan Events for the 2019-2020 Season
Noura Erakat with Janine Jackson
Wednesday 4 December 2019
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and assistant professor at Rutgers University. She has served as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, as a legal advocate for Palestinian refugee rights at the...
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Tyehimba Jess with Janice A. Lowe
Wednesday 26 February 2020
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Midland Society Authors Award in Poetry; received an Outstanding...
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Terrance Hayes with Tim Seibles
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float in the Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge...
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John Edgar Wideman with Mitchell S. Jackson
Wednesday 1 April 2020
John Edgar Wideman's books include American Histories; Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File; Philadelphia Fire; Brothers and Keepers; Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and...
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Deborah Eisenberg with David Ulin
Wednesday 15 April 2020
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of five collections of short stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, All Around Atlantis, Twilight of the Superheroes, and Your Duck Is My Duck. She is a...
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Yanis Varoufakis with Daniel Denvir
Wednesday 6 May 2020
Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece's parliament and leader of the Greek political party MeRA25, which belongs to the pan-European movement DiEM25. He served as Greece's finance minister in 2015. He is the author of...
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Boots Riley with Robin D. G. Kelley
Wednesday 11 September 2019
Boots Riley is a provocative and prolific poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, director, community organizer, and public speaker. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. His...
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Vijay Prashad with Melanie K. Yazzie
Wednesday 25 September 2019
Vijay Prashad is a Marxist historian and journalist. He is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a movement-driven research institution based in Argentina, Brazil, India, and South Africa. He is...
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Deborah Levy with John Freeman
Wednesday 30 October 2019
Deborah Levy, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and translated widely across the world. The...
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Eve L. Ewing with Wayne Au
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Eve Louise Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focused on racism, social inequality, and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people. She is an...
Event Details2019 Lannan Literary Awards & Fellowships
Lannan honors established and emerging writers of distinctive literary merit:
Evie Shockley: Literary Award for Poetry
Nick Estes: Literary Fellowship for Nonfiction
Caitriona Lally: Literary Fellowship for Fiction
Wayétu Moore: Literary Fellowship for Fiction
Lannan Art Collection: Recent Acquisition
Lannan has recently acquired the entire Relicarios collection from Erika Diettes of Bogotá, Colombia. Shown here are #54 and #43, from the series of 56.
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Mixed media with objects embedded in rubber tripolymer encased in a lighted Plexiglas urn
Bookworm Interview with Ocean Vuong
Lannan is a supporter of Michael Silverblatt’s long-running interview series on KCRW radio, Bookworm. This recent episode features Ocean Vuong, previous recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Ocean Vuong speaks of leaving his thumbprint on his new novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Follow this external link to listen to the full episode at KCRW. Photo by Christopher Ho.
Marfa Public Radio Interview with Alfredo Corchado & Toni Jensen
Listen to Marfa Public Radio’s interview with border journalist Alfredo Corchado, and Lannan writer-in-resident Toni Jensen, discussing their work.
