Beschreibung

Rivka Galchen and Joseph O’ Neill will present insights to their current works and projects. Free admission.

Rivka Galchen is the author of the novel „Atmospheric Disturbances“, a finalist for numerous prizes including The Canadian Writers’ Trust’s Fiction Prize and the Governor’s General Award. She is also the author of the short story collection „American Innovations“ and has published essays and stories in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Harper’s Magazine, for which she is a contributing editor. She teaches in the writing program at Columbia University and has received a Ronna Jaffe Writer’s Foundation award and a fellowship from The American Academy in Berlin. In 2010 Galchen was chosen by The New Yorker as one of its “20 Under 40″. She received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her MFA at Columbia University.

Joseph O’Neill has written four novels, most recently „The Dog“ (2014) and „Netherland“ (2008), which received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Kerry Fiction Prize. He is also the author of Blood-Dark Track (2001), a family history. Born in Ireland and raised in the Netherlands, for many years he has lived in New York City.

Presenter: Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch, Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich