The Sandspur

Issue date: 2/28/08 Section: News

The 68th season of Winter With the Writers, A Festival of the Literary Arts came to a close Thursday, Feb. 21 with American novelist Jamaica Kincaid. Her first book, At the Bottom of the River, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Morton Darwen Zabel Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Following, she published her first novel, Annie John. Other major works include Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip, Autobiography of My Mother, and MyGarden (Book). Her latest book is Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.

Winter With the Writers brings distinguished writers to campus to share their work and expertise with students and the community four consecutive Thursdays beginning the last week in January. Events included master classes, readings, on-stage interviews and book signings.

The series kicked off Thursday, Jan. 31 with Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham.His novels, including A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood and Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown, have been published to wide acclaim.

The Hours won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award. The film version of The Hours was directed by Stephen Daldry and featured Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep.

He is also the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Poet Mark Jarman visited Rollins Thursday, Feb. 7. Currently centennial professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Jarman's most recent poetry is collected in his new book, Epistles.

He is the author of eight additional books of poetry. Awards include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award for his poetry, three NEA grants in poetry and a fellowship in poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His book, The Black Riviera, won the 1991 Poets' Prize.

Irish short-story writer Claire Keegan came to Rollins Feb. 14. Her first collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and was translated into Chinese, Italian and German.

Her latest collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published earlier this year. Her stories have won numerous awards, including The William Trevor Prize, The Kilkenny Prize, The Olive Cook Award, The Tom Gallon Award and more.

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