Alexis
Stamatis, Greek Novelist and Poet
Alexis Stamatis will be reading on all four NEOMFA campuses
October 13th-16th
Alexis
Stamatis, well known Greek journalist, novelist, and poet, has
published seven novels and six books of poetry. His second novel,
Βar Flaubert (Kedros 2000), a critically acclaimed best seller
in Greece, has been published in France, Italy, Spain, Russia,
Bangladesh and Serbia, and been adapted to a screenplay by Vassilis
Douvlis. His second book The Architecture of Interior Spaces,
was awarded the Nikiforos Vrettakos Prize in 1994. Τwo collections
of his poems have been translated into English in Great Britain.
Stamatis also wrote the libretti for 2 musical pieces by the
composer Theo Abazis, performed in Megaron Mousikis and the Chora
theatre. In 2004, he participated at the world famous International
Writing Program of the University of Iowa through a Greek Fulbright
Artists & Art-Scholars Award. In 2007, the US publishing house
Etruscan Press won the 1st International Literary Award by the
National Endowment of Arts to publish his new novel American
Fugue. Stamatis is visiting the NEOMFA this fall as part of a
tour which includes various American Universities including Harvard,
Columbia and Cornell.
Check the
NEOMFA Calendar
for all NEOMFA Events featuring Alexis Stamatis!
Philip
Lopate,
New
York Fiction, Essay, and Memoir Writer
Philip Lopate will teach a week-long
workshop from 10 am-12 pm on the KSU Campus and will speak on all
four NEOMFA campuses the week of November 3rd-7th
Philip
Lopate, New York based fiction, essay, and memoir writer,
is the author of three essay collections: Bachelorhood
(Little, Brown, 1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Simon &
Schuster, 1989), and Portrait of My Body (Doubleday-Anchor,
1996); two novels, Confessions of Summer (Doubleday, 1979)
and The Rug Merchant (Viking, 1987); two poetry collections,
The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open (Sun Press, 1972) and
The Daily Round (Sun Press, 1976); and a memoir of his
teaching experiences, Being With Children (Doubleday, 1975).
His essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in The Best American
Short Stories (1974), The Best American Essays (1987),
several Pushcart Prize annuals, the anthologies Congregation
and Testimony, and The Paris Review, Harper's,
Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Harvard Educational Review, The
New York Times Book Review, Boulevard, The Journal of Contemporary
Fiction, Double Take, and others.
SEE
YOUR NEOMFA CAMPUS COORDINATOR FOR MORE INFORMATION ON VISITING
WRITER EVENTS AND TO ENROLL IN THIS SPECIAL WORKSHOP! |