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Literary Evening: Reading and Q&A with Patricia Hampl | Prague Summer Program

18.07.2016
Americké centrum, Tržiště 13, Praha 1 – Malá Strana
Fee: Free (please, sign up by clicking at signup above the picture)

About the Event

Her most recent books, The Florist’s Daughter and Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime were on numerous “best” and “year-end” lists, including the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of the Year.” She is Regents Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She first won recognition for A Romantic Education, her memoir about her Czech heritage, awarded a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. This book and subsequent works have established her as an influential figure in the rise of autobiographical writing. She is also the author of two collections of poetry.

Her other books include Spillville, a meditation on Antonin Dvorak’s 1893 summer in Iowa, and Virgin Time, about her Catholic upbringing and an inquiry into contemplative life. I Could Tell You Stories was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 2000. Her short fiction, essays, poetry and travel pieces have appeared widely, in such publications as The New Yorker, Paris Review, The American Scholar, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Arts (in poetry and in prose), the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a MacArthur Fellow. In English.

The Prague Summer Program for Writers has been connecting creative writers with a concentrated, artistically rich learning environment in one of Europe’s most historic cities for over 20 years. More information can be found at http://praguesummer.com/program-info/.


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