O. Henry Award
1 appearances
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Edition 95 (2016) Winner
Frederic Tuten
ふれでりっく・とぅてん
Furederikku Tūten
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1936-12-02 （Bronx, New York City, US）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- The Bronx, Pelham Parkway neighborhood, New York City → East Village, Manhattan
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Short story writer, Essayist, Artist
- Active Years
- 1964-2024
- Affiliations
- City College of New York, The New School, University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis, Guernica Magazine
- Influenced By
- Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner
- Influenced
- Walter Mosley, Oscar Hijuelos
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City College of New York | — | Literature | 学士 | — | United States |
| National Autonomous University of Mexico | — | Pre-Columbian art history | — | — | Mexico |
| New York University | — | 19th-century American literature | PhD | — | United States |
City College of New York
Literature
Degree:
学士
Country:
United States
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Pre-Columbian art history
Country:
Mexico
Studied pre-Columbian art history
New York University
19th-century American literature
Degree:
PhD
Country:
United States
Focused on Melville, Whitman, and James Fenimore Cooper
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | 創作執筆 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2001 | Award for Distinguished Writing, American Academy of Arts and Letters | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
Guggenheim Fellowship
1973
Category:
創作執筆
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Award for Distinguished Writing, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2001
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
1971 Experimental novelA fictionalized account of Chairman Mao's rise to power, highly experimental with Faulkneresque narrative shifts and fictional interviews.
revolutionpoliticshistory
Tallien: A Brief Romance
1988 Historical novelStory of Jean Lambert Tallien's courtship and marriage to aristocrat Therese during the French Revolution.
revolutionlovefamily
Tintin in the New World: A Romance
1993 Experimental novelTransplants comic character Tintin into a realistic world, with characters from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
pop cultureartadventure
Translations
- Translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Swedish
Van Gogh's Bad Café
1997 NovelImagined glimpse into Vincent van Gogh's psyche, exploring love and addiction.
loveaddictionart
The Green Hour
2002 Novel30-year love affair between an academic and a spiritual vagabond in present day.
lovecontemporary life
My Young Life
2019 MemoirMemoir spanning 1944-1965 from Bronx to Greenwich Village, Mexico City, chasing artistic aspirations.
youthartNew York
Bibliography
- The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
- Tallien: A Brief Romance
- Tintin in the New World
- Van Gogh's Bad Café
- The Green Hour
- Self Portraits: Fictions
- The Bar at Twilight
- On a Terrace in Tangier
- My Young Life
Translations of Works
- Some works translated into French, German, etc.
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimental narrativecollage techniqueallusions to art and filmdiscontinuous narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- imagined historical figurespop culturelove and losscat Nicolino
Legacy
Acclaimed for experimental postmodern novels blending art, history, and pop culture; mentored writers like Walter Mosley.
Archives
- Literary Archive of Frederic Tuten
In Popular Culture
- Co-wrote screenplay for cult film Possession
Trivia
- Son of Sicilian mother and French-Huguenot father, raised in book-loving impoverished family.
- Cat named Nicolino appears in several novels and stories.
- Close friend of artist Roy Lichtenstein, wrote essays on his work.
- Co-wrote screenplay for 1981 cult film Possession.