Lannan Literary Awards
3 appearances
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Edition 194 (2014, held 6 times in year) Lifetime Achievement Award
Steve Erickson
スティーブ・エリクソン
Steve Erickson
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Santa Monica, California, U.S.
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Los Angeles (born and long-term residence) → University of California, Riverside (residence for academic position)
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, essayist, critic, academic
- Active Years
- 1985-
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside — Chair, Department of Creative Writing (professor), Founding editor of the literary journal Black Clock
- Influenced By
- European modernism, American pulp traditions, late-century postmodernism
- Influenced
- Thomas Pynchon (has cited/mentioned), David Foster Wallace (has cited), Richard Powers (has cited), Dana Spiotta (has cited), William Gibson (has cited), Kathy Acker (has cited), Rick Moody (has cited), Joshua Cohen (has cited), Mark Z. Danielewski (has cited)
- Nominations
- British Fantasy Award (Best Novel nominee) — Amnesiascope (1997), British Fantasy Award (Best Novel nominee) — The Sea Came in at Midnight (1999)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | — | Studied literature, film, journalism and political philosophy | — | 在学期間不詳 | United States |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Studied literature, film, journalism and political philosophy
Period:
在学期間不詳
Country:
United States
Studied multiple fields at UCLA; exact degree/graduation details are not consistently documented.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞 |
| 1987 | The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year | Rubicon Beach | — | The New York Times Book Review | 選出 |
| 1989 | The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year | Tours of the Black Clock | — | The New York Times Book Review | 選出 |
| 2007 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2010 | American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| 2014 | Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award | — | — | Lannan Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2001 | MacDowell Fellow | — | — | MacDowell | フェロー |
| 2002 | MacDowell Fellow | — | — | MacDowell | フェロー |
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship
1987
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞
The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
1987
Work:
Rubicon Beach
Organization:
The New York Times Book Review
Result:
選出
The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
1989
Work:
Tours of the Black Clock
Organization:
The New York Times Book Review
Result:
選出
Guggenheim Fellowship
2007
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Result:
受賞
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
2010
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
2014
Organization:
Lannan Foundation
Result:
受賞
MacDowell Fellow
2001
Organization:
MacDowell
Result:
フェロー
MacDowell Fellow
2002
Organization:
MacDowell
Result:
フェロー
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Days Between Stations
1985 Avantpop / SurrealismA novel centered on a young couple; reality, dreams and memory intersect in a surreal narrative. One of Erickson's early notable works.
memorydreamsidentity
Tours of the Black Clock
1989 Surrealism / PostmodernA novel that manipulates fragments of time and history with a succession of surreal images. Critically acclaimed.
timereconstruction of historydream imagery
Zeroville
2007 Postmodern / Hollywood novelAn ambitious story set in Hollywood and film culture, blending homage to cinema with apocalyptic visions.
filmculture and memoryloss and rebirth
Adaptations
- [film] Zeroville (film) / James Franco (2019)
Shadowbahn
2017 Surrealism / PostmodernA novel with intersecting characters and timelines; dreamlike and fragmentary narration that earned strong critical praise.
dreamsslices of American societymemory and narrative
Adaptations
- [radio drama] Shadowbahn (BBC Radio 4 adaptation) (2018)
Bibliography
- Days Between Stations (1985)
- Rubicon Beach (1986)
- Tours of the Black Clock (1989)
- Arc d'X (1993)
- Amnesiascope (1996)
- The Sea Came in at Midnight (1999)
- Our Ecstatic Days (2005)
- Zeroville (2007)
- These Dreams of You (2012)
- Shadowbahn (2017)
- Leap Year (1989)
- American Nomad (1997)
- American Stutter (2022)
Adaptations
- Zeroville film adaptation (dir. James Franco, 2019)
- Shadowbahn adaptation for BBC Radio 4 (2018)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- surreal, dream-reality blending prosepostmodern fragmented structuresavantpop cultural hybridity
- Recurring Motifs
- stuttering (childhood experience recurs as motif)dreams and fantasiesHollywood/film culturefragmentation of memory and history
Health
-
stuttering (childhood)幼少期Had a pronounced childhood stutter that led teachers to doubt his reading ability; the stutter recurs as a motif in his fiction.
Legacy
Steve Erickson is regarded as an important American writer whose distinctive blend of surrealism and postmodernism has earned critical acclaim and influenced contemporary writers; his work engages deeply with film culture and memory.
In Popular Culture
- A film adaptation of Zeroville was released in 2019 starring James Franco.
- Shadowbahn was adapted and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2018).
Quotes
-
The only authentic American surrealist.
Source: Greil Marcus (critic) — quoted in secondary sources (see Wikipedia)
Trivia
- His mother was a former actress who ran a small theatre in L.A.
- His father was a photographer (died 1990).
- His pronounced childhood stutter recurs as a motif in his fiction.
- Founding editor of the literary journal Black Clock and edited it for 14 years.