Lannan Literary Awards
5 appearances
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Edition 146 (2002, held 7 times in year) Fellowship
Lewis Hyde
ルイス・ハイド
Ruisu Haido
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Gambier, Ohio, U.S. → Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Career
- Occupations
- author, poet, scholar, translator, cultural critic
- Active Years
- 1970-
- Affiliations
- Harvard University, Kenyon College, USC Annenberg Center for Communication, Harvard Berkman Center (visiting)
- Influenced By
- Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Vicente Aleixandre
- Influenced
- Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, David Foster Wallace
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota | — | Sociology | B.A. | — | United States |
| University of Iowa | — | Comparative Literature | M.A. | — | United States |
University of Minnesota
Sociology
Degree:
B.A.
Country:
United States
University of Iowa
Comparative Literature
Degree:
M.A.
Country:
United States
M.A. in Comparative Literature
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | MacArthur Fellowship | — | — | MacArthur Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1977 | NEA Creative Writing Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) | 受賞 |
| 1982 | NEA Creative Writing Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) | 受賞 |
| 1987 | NEA Creative Writing Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) | 受賞 |
| 1979 | NEH Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | 受賞 |
| 1993 | Getty Center Residency | — | — | Getty Center | 参加 |
| 2002 | Lannan Literary Fellowship | — | — | Lannan Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2003 | American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship | — | — | American Council of Learned Societies | 受賞 |
| 2006 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1988 | MacDowell Colony Fellowship | — | — | MacDowell Colony | 受賞（複数年のレジデンシーあり） |
MacArthur Fellowship
1991
Organization:
MacArthur Foundation
Result:
受賞
NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
1977
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Result:
受賞
NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
1982
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Result:
受賞
NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
1987
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Result:
受賞
NEH Fellowship
1979
Organization:
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Result:
受賞
Getty Center Residency
1993
Organization:
Getty Center
Result:
参加
Lannan Literary Fellowship
2002
Organization:
Lannan Foundation
Result:
受賞
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
2003
Organization:
American Council of Learned Societies
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2006
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1988
Organization:
MacDowell Colony
Result:
受賞（複数年のレジデンシーあり）
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
1983 Nonfiction / Cultural criticismAn essayistic study of creativity and exchange framed by the idea of the 'gift', examining how artistic creativity relates to economic interests and cultural practices of ownership.
creativitygiftproperty
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art
1998 Nonfiction / Mythology & cultural criticismUses the figure of the trickster to explore how mischief, myth, and disruption contribute to cultural creation and artistic imagination.
tricksterorigins of creativitymyth
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
2010 Nonfiction / Cultural policyExamines the history and controversies around cultural patrimony and argues for protecting shared cultural goods from commercial enclosure.
cultural patrimonycommonsintellectual property
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
2019 Essay / ThoughtConsiders the ethical and cultural significance of memory and forgetting, and how individuals and societies can move beyond the past.
memoryforgettinghistorical consciousness
This Error Is the Sign of Love: Poems
1988 PoetryA collection of poems intertwining personal emotion and cultural reflection.
loveerrorcreation
Bibliography
- The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983)
- Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art (1998)
- Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership (2010)
- A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past (2019)
- This Error Is the Sign of Love: Poems (1988)
- On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg (1985)
- Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking (1986)
- Various edited and translated works
Translations by Author
- Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (editor/translator)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- essayistic scholarly stylefrequent mythic and metaphorical referencesblends criticism and narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- gift and exchangetrickster figurememory and forgettingownership vs. commons
Legacy
Hyde is respected for his insights into creativity, imagination, and ownership; his books such as The Gift and Common as Air have influenced writers and contributed to debates on cultural ownership and the commons.
Trivia
- Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991.
- Married to Patricia Vigderman; divides time between Gambier, Ohio and Cambridge, MA.
- Official website: lewishyde.com