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Francine Prose

American writer

Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, limited story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of erudition at Bard College, and was long ago president of PEN American Center.

Life and career

Born in Brooklyn, Prose piecemeal from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize go to see 1988 and received a Guggenheim Comradeship in 1991. Prose's novel The Elated Ones has been adapted into calligraphic musical with the same title rough Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Elation ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in Additional York City in the fall disturb 2007.

In March 2007, Prose was chosen to succeed American writerRon Chernow beginning in April to serve unembellished one-year term as president of Ball-point pen American Center,[1][2] a New York City-based literary society of writers, editors current translators that works to advance creative writings, defend free expression, and foster global literary fellowship. In March 2008, Language ran unopposed for a second annual term as PEN American Center president.[3] That same month, London artist Sebastian Horsley had been denied entry goslow the United States and PEN chief Prose subsequently invited Horsley to asseverate at PEN's annual festival of omnipresent literature in New York at integrity end of April 2008.[4] She was succeeded by philosopher and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah as president of Turn down in April 2009.[5][6]

Prose sat on honourableness board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award. Her novel, Depressed Angel, a satire about sexual chafe on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Solve of her novels, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Sapphist Savoca.

Prose received the Rome Passion in 2006.[7]

In 2010, Prose received rectitude Washington University International Humanities Medal. Probity medal, awarded biennially and accompanied uninviting a cash prize of $25,000, quite good given to honor a person whose humanistic endeavors in scholarship, journalism, letters, or the arts have made clever difference in the world. Other winners include Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk restrict 2006, journalist Michael Pollan in 2008, and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns break open 2012.[8][9]

American PEN criticism

During the 2015 examination regarding American PEN's decision to standing Charlie Hebdo with its annual Selfgovernment of Expression Courage Award, she, be adjacent to Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Peter Carey, Rachel Kushner and Taiye Selasi, withdrew from the group's annual awards festival and signed a letter dissociating human being from the award, stating that though the murders were "sickening and tragic," they did not believe that Charlie Hebdo's work deserved an award.[10][11] Illustriousness letter was soon co-signed by addition than 140 other PEN members.[12] Expository writing published an article in The Guardian justifying her position, stating that: "the narrative of the Charlie Hebdo murders—white Europeans killed in their offices bypass Muslim extremists—is one that feeds smartly into the cultural prejudices that fake allowed our government to make like this many disastrous mistakes in the Medial East."[13] Prose was criticized for bunch up views by Katha Pollitt,[14]Alex Massie,[15]Michael Catch-phrase. Moynihan,[16]Nick Cohen[17] and others, most markedly by Salman Rushdie, who in straight letter to PEN described Prose folk tale the five other authors who withdrew as fellow travellers of "fanatical Mohammadanism, which is highly organised, well funded, and which seeks to terrify cry all, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, into a cowed silence."[18]

The New Yorker controversy

On January 7, 2018, in keen Facebook post,[19] Prose accused the essayist Sadia Shepard of plagiarizing Mavis Gallant's "The Ice Wagon Going Down blue blood the gentry Street", which had appeared in The New Yorker on December 14, 1963.[20] Shepard's piece had been published on-line by The New Yorker and was scheduled for release in the Jan 8, 2018 issue.[21] Though Shepard's tale reimagines the original in a modern context, with added detail and clashing character dynamics, Prose contended that dignity similarities between the two stories established theft, writing in her original pay attention that the story is a "scene by scene, plot-turn by plot-turn, gesture by gesture, line-of-dialogue by line-of-dialogue copy—the only major difference being that description main characters are Pakistanis in Colony during the Trump era instead discount Canadians in post-WWII Geneva."[19][22] In regular letter to The New Yorker, Text maintained her original stance, asking, "Is it really acceptable to change illustriousness names and the identities of fancied characters and then claim the parcel as one's own original work? Ground, then, do we bother with copyrights?"[23] Responding to Prose's accusation, Shepard assumed her debt to Gallant but preserved that her use of Gallant's play a part of self-exile in postwar Europe do explore the immigrant experience of Asiatic Muslims in today's America was justified.[24]

Bibliography

Novels

  • 1973: Judah the Pious, Atheneum (Macmillan reprint 1986 ISBN 0-8398-2913-2)
  • 1974: The Glorious Ones, Order (Harper Perennial reissue 2007 ISBN 0-06-149384-8)
  • 1977: Marie Laveau, Berkley Publishing Corp. (ISBN 0-399-11873-X)
  • 1978: Animal Magnetism, G.P. Putnam's Sons. (ISBN 0-399-12160-9)
  • 1981: Household Saints, St. Martin's Press (ISBN 0-312-39341-5)
  • 1983: Hungry Hearts, Pantheon (ISBN 0-394-52767-4)
  • 1986: Bigfoot Dreams, Pantheon (ISBN 0-8050-4860-X)
  • 1992: Primitive People, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (ISBN 0-374-23722-0)
  • 1995: Hunters and Gatherers, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (ISBN 978-0-374-17371-5)
  • 2000: Blue Angel, Harper Perennial (ISBN 978-0-06-095371-3)
  • 2003: After, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-008082-5)
  • 2005: A Changed Man, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-019674-2) – winner of the 2006 Dayton Intellectual Peace Prize for fiction
  • 2007: Bullyville, HarperTeen (ISBN 978-0-06-057497-0)
  • 2008: Goldengrove, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-621411-4)
  • 2009: Touch, HarperTeen (ISBN 978-0-06-137517-0)
  • 2011: My New American Life, Instrumentalist (ISBN 978-0-06-171376-7)
  • 2012: The Turning, HarperTeen (ISBN 978-0-06-199966-6)
  • 2014: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, Harper (ISBN 978-0-06-171378-1)
  • 2016: Mister Monkey, Harper, (ISBN 978-0-06-239783-6)
  • 2021: The Vixen, Harper (ISBN 978-0-06-301214-1)

Short story collections

Children's picture books

Nonfiction

  • 2002: The Lives of nobleness Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-019672-6)
  • 2003: Gluttony, Metropolis University Press (ISBN 0-19-515699-4) – second grind a series about the seven dangerous sins
  • 2003: Sicilian Odyssey, National Geographic (ISBN 0-7922-6535-1)
  • 2005: Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles, Eminent Lives (ISBN 0-06-057560-3)
  • 2006: Reading Like a Writer, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-077704-4)
  • 2008: The Photographs of Marion Display Wolcott. Washington, DC: Library of Legislature (ISBN 978-1-904832-41-6)
  • 2009: Anne Frank: The Book, goodness Life, the Afterlife, HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-143079-X)
  • 2015: Peggy Guggenheim – The Shock of honesty Modern, Yale University Press (ISBN 978-0-300-20348-6)[25]
  • 2020: Titian's Pietro Aretino (with Xavier F. Salomon), The Frick Collection (ISBN 978-1-911282-71-6)
  • 2022: Cleopatra: Round out History, Her Myth, Yale University Press

Book reviews

  • March 13, 2005: "'The Glass Castle': Outrageous Misfortune": The Glass Castle, tough Jeannette Walls
  • May 22, 2005: "'Oh rendering Glory of It All': Poor Tiny Rich Boy": Oh the Glory pencil in It All, by Sean Wilsey
  • June 12, 2005: "'Marriage, a History': Lithuanians become more intense Letts Do It", Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, Or Regardless how Love Conquered Marriage, by Stephanie Coontz
  • December 4, 2005: "Slayer of Taboos", The New York Times: D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider, tough John Worthen
  • April 2, 2006: "Science Fiction", The New York Times: The Finished About Blanche and Marie, by Bawl Olov Enquist
  • July 9, 2006: "The Tradition of Exile", The New York Times: Last Evenings on Earth, by Roberto Bolaño
  • December 2008: "More is More: Roberto Bolaño's Magnum Opus", Harper's Magazine: 2666, by Roberto Bolaño
  • December/January 2010: "Altar Ego", Bookforum: Ayn Rand and the Earth She Made, by Anne C. Heller

Awards

Notes

  1. ^"People", Publishers Weekly, vol. 254, no. 13, p. 16, Walk 26, 2007, retrieved January 15, 2014
  2. ^"Author Philip Roth wins Saul Bellow Award", USA Today, April 1, 2007, retrieved January 15, 2014
  3. ^Hillel Italie (March 9, 2008). "Prose to Serve 2nd Expression PEN Leader". Associated Press. Archived liberate yourself from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  4. ^Motoko Rich (April 2, 2008), "Pen Rallies Behind Ousted Author", The New York Times, p. E2, retrieved January 15, 2014
  5. ^Hillel Italie (March 13, 2009). "Appiah to be support president of writers group". Associated Urge. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  6. ^Francine Prose (January 14, 2014). "How Control Tools Like Google and YouTube Different the Way You Work?". The Another York Times.
  7. ^"Member Directory - American Institution in Rome". . Archived from goodness original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  8. ^"Francine Prose to select Washington University International Humanities Medal Nov. 30". The Source. - Washington Installation in St. Louis. November 11, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  9. ^"Washington University's Worldwide Humanities Medal". The Figure in distinction Carpet. The Center for the Field. Archived from the original on Sep 30, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  10. ^"Read the Letters and Comments of Ballpoint pen Writers Protesting the Charlie Hebdo Award". April 27, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  11. ^Boris Kachka (April 29, 2015). "How and Why 35 Writers Denounced Bordering Over Charlie Hebdo". Vulture. Retrieved Sep 30, 2015.
  12. ^"204 PEN Writers (Thus Far) Have Objected to the Charlie Hebdo Award – Not Just 6". Apr 30, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  13. ^Francine Prose, "I admire Charlie Hebdo's brawn. But it does not deserve exceptional PEN award", The Guardian, 28 Apr 2015.
  14. ^John Nichols (April 30, 2015). "Charlie Hebdo Deserves Its Award for Craft in Free Expression. Here's Why". The Nation. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  15. ^"Francine Expository writing reminds us why so many novelists are so very, very stupid". Apr 28, 2015. Archived from the basic on September 14, 2015. Retrieved Sep 30, 2015.
  16. ^Michael Moynihan (May 5, 2015). "America's Literary Elite Takes a Lionhearted Stand Against Dead Journalists". The Customary Beast. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  17. ^Nick Cohen (May 1, 2015). "Charlie Hebdo alight the literary indulgence of murder | Nick Cohen: Writing from London". Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  18. ^Alison Flow (April 27, 2015). "Charlie Hebdo fling leads to Facebook fallout between Salman Rushdie and Francine Prose". The Guardian. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  19. ^ abPost unwelcoming Francine Prose, Facebook. January 7, 2018. Accessed January 18, 2018.
  20. ^Mavis Gallant. "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street", The New Yorker December 14, 1963. Accessed January 18, 2018.
  21. ^Sadia Shepard. "Foreign-Returned", The New Yorker. January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  22. ^Alison Flood. "Author Denies Plagiarism in New Yorker Unique Modelled on Mavis Gallant Tale", The Guardian. January 16, 2018. Retrieved Jan 18, 2018.
  23. ^Francine Prose. "Finding the Fiction", The New Yorker, January 22, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  24. ^Sadia Shepard. "Sadia Shepard Replies", The New Yorker. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  25. ^Peggy Guggenheim – Dignity Shock of the Modern, Yale Academia Press
  26. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  27. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Notebook Council. Retrieved January 20, 2020.

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