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The U.S. Embassy in Vilnius has the wonderful opportunity to introduce to the Lithuanian audience a leading American fiction writer Mr. Larry Woiwode.
September 27, 2000
Larry Woiwode
Thursday, September 28, 2000
17:00 at the American Center
Pranciskonu 3/6, Vilnius
Please R.S.V.P. at 660 330
The U.S. Embassy in Vilnius has the wonderful opportunity to introduce to the Lithuanian audience a leading American fiction writer Mr. Larry Woiwode.
Larry Woiwode’s fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harpers, Paris Review, and a variety of publications, including the two dozen stories in The New Yorker, and has been translated into a dozen languages. His books include What I’m Going To Do, I Think, Beyond the Bedroom Wall (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Book Critics Circle Award) Poppa John, Indian Affairs, Silent Passengers, Acts, the recent memoir What I Think I Did, and five others. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has conducted writing seminars and workshops across the United States and in England, and was the director of the writing program at the State University of New York, Binghamton, for several years. In 1995 he was named poet laureate of North Dakota and that year in New York received the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, for “distinction in the art of the short story,” presented once every six years. He is also the recipient of the William Faulkner Foundation Award and the John Dos Passos Prize, among others, and presently lives in North Dakota with his wife and family. In 2000, besides his memoir, he has published a biography of Harold Schafer, businessman, preservationist and philanthropist, Aristocrat of the West.
We invite you to join us for a discussion on the subject of writing and publishing in the U.S. at the American Center on Thursday, September 28, 2000, at 17:00.
The discussion will be translated simultaneously. An informal reception will follow.
We look forward to seeing you at this special event!
For further information please contact
Daiva Dapsiene, Cultural Affairs Specialist, Tel: 660 330.
