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Public reading with Patricia Hampl and extended Q&A

21.07.2014
American Center, Tržiště 13, Prague 1
Fee: Free

About the Event

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 NEA (in poetry and in prose), the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a MacArthur Fellow.  She is Regents Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

In English.

Organized with Prague Summer Program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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