The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (2021) Winner
Renee Gladman
レニー・グラッドマン
Renee Gladman
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1971-01-01 （Atlanta, Georgia, United States）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States → Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Artist
- Active Years
- 1994-
- Affiliations
- Brown University (taught creative writing, 2006–2014), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (fellow), Ithaca College (Image Text fellow, 2016)
- Influenced By
- Samuel Beckett, Anne Carson, Julio Cortázar, Youmna Chlala
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar College | — | — | AB | 1989–1993 | United States |
| New College of California | — | — | MFA/MA | 2004–2006 | United States |
Vassar College
Degree:
AB
Period:
1989–1993
Year of Graduation:
1993
Country:
United States
New College of California
Degree:
MFA/MA
Period:
2004–2006
Year of Graduation:
2006
Country:
United States
Studied poetics
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant | — | — | Foundation for Contemporary Arts | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Lannan Foundation Writing Residency | — | — | Lannan Foundation | 受賞（レジデンシー） |
| 2017 | CLMP Firecracker Award | Calamities | — | Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) | 受賞 |
| 2021 | Windham–Campbell Literature Prize | — | fiction | Windham–Campbell Prizes (Yale University administered) | 受賞 |
| 2023 | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Finalist) | Plans for Sentences | poetry | Hurston/Wright Foundation | ファイナリスト |
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
2016
Organization:
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Result:
受賞
Lannan Foundation Writing Residency
2017
Organization:
Lannan Foundation
Result:
受賞（レジデンシー）
CLMP Firecracker Award
2017
Work:
Calamities
Organization:
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
Result:
受賞
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2021
Category:
fiction
Organization:
Windham–Campbell Prizes (Yale University administered)
Result:
受賞
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Finalist)
2023
Work:
Plans for Sentences
Category:
poetry
Organization:
Hurston/Wright Foundation
Result:
ファイナリスト
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Houses of Ravicka
2017 Experimental fiction (Ravicka cycle)A novel set in the author's invented country of Ravicka; a fragmentary, experimental exploration of city life, architecture, language, and community.
city lifearchitecturelanguagecommunity
Prose Architectures
2017 Visual art / DrawingsA collection of drawings exploring relations between architecture and language; illegible-script-like images that blur the boundary between visual and linguistic forms.
architecturelanguage-image relationvisual poetry
Calamities
2016 Essays / Creative nonfictionA collection of short essays (what Gladman calls "ditties") that present brief, circular fragments addressing memory and experience.
fragmentationmemoryeveryday life
Morelia
2019 Crime novel / FictionA work incorporating elements of crime fiction while blurring genre boundaries and exploring narrative form.
crimegenre boundariesurbanity
Plans for Sentences
2022 Poetry / Visual workA recent work foregrounding concerns with language and sentence structure; a series where poetry and visual expression intersect.
linguistic experimentationsentence structurevisual expression
Bibliography
- Arlem (1994)
- Juice (2000)
- The Activist (2003)
- A Picture-Feeling (2005)
- Newcomer Can't Swim (2007)
- To After That (Toaf) (2008)
- Event Factory (2010)
- The Ravickians (2011)
- Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013)
- Houses of Ravicka (2017)
- Calamities (2016)
- Prose Architectures (2017)
- Morelia (2019)
- One Long Black Sentence (with Fred Moten) (2020)
- Plans for Sentences (2022)
- My Lesbian Novel (2024)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimental proseblurring of poetry and fictiontext with visual elements
- Recurring Motifs
- city and architecturelanguage and communicationcrossings and thresholdscommunity
Legacy
Gladman is recognized as an experimental writer-artist who crosses genres; through the Ravicka cycle and her visual works she has offered distinctive perspectives on city life, architecture, and language. Her combination of poetry, prose, and drawing has influenced contemporary experimental writing.
Museums
- Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (Wesleyan University) Middletown, Connecticut (Wesleyan University campus)
- Artists Space New York, NY (Artists Space)
Quotes
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Fiction is interested in a certain kind of unfolding or sequence of events. Time is more intact in fiction. Prose, I think, introduces the element of the awareness of yourself in language as you are unfolding things in time and allowing yourself to be distracted or interrupted, allowing yourself to question the difficulty of what you’re doing and be stalled, not to move. I want more fiction to do this.
Source: Interview with Lucy Ives (Triple Canopy, 2012) (2012)
Trivia
- Has run small press and zine projects (Clamour, Leroy Chapbook series, Leon Works press).
- Known for the Ravicka cycle set in the invented country of Ravicka.
- Partner is poet and ceramicist Danielle Vogel.
- Noted for combining drawings with poetry and prose.