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Biography
He has published two collections of short stories (The Silver Age and Three Evenings) and two books of poetry, as well as co-editing the anthology After Ovid: New Metamorphoses. Lasdun has been awarded numerous prizes for his writing, including the Dylan Thomas Award and a Guggenheim Award for poetry (1989), and his work has appeared in publications as diverse as The New Yorker, Grand Street, and The Los Angeles Times. Years ago James Lasdun was a volunteer in at East Side homeless shelter. Lasdun is married. His wife is Pia Davis. She was co-author of "Walking and Talking in Tuscany and Umbria". James Lasdun was co-author of both Jonathan Nossiter's feature films. He shared with Nossiter Waldo Screen Award at the Sundance film festival. He lives in Woodstock, NYC. James Lasdun's bibliography:
Poetry - Woman Police Officer in Elevator (1996). Co-editor (with Michael Hofmann) of the anthology After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994). A Jump Start (1987). Fiction - Besieged: Selected Stories (2000); Three Evenings (1994); Delirium Eclipse (1986). Screenwriting - (with Jonathan Nossiter): Signs and Wonders (2000); Sunday (1997), Sundance Festival Best Dramatic Feature and Best Screenplay awards. Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry; winner of Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition (1999); Dylan Thomas Award for short fiction (1986). |
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James Lasdun was born in London, England, in 1958. He graduated from Bristol University in 1979 and went to work for Publisher's Reader in London (1980-1986). He has been an instructor in creative writing at Columbia University (1987), Princeton University (1987), New York University (1988-1991) and Bennington College (1991-). He also served as coeditor of Straight Lines (1979-1984).