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Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt is the author of The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books, 2000), which has been translated into twenty languages, and Lightning Rods (New Directions, 2011), a finalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. She has collaborated with the painter Ingrid Kerma on the show “Blushing Brides,” with journalist Ilya Gridneff on the novel Your Name Here, with photographer Emily Horne on “Sexual Codes of the Europeans” for Photography & Prose (under curation), and with artist Elizabeth McAlpine on “Plantinga” for Photomonth Krakow. She lives in Berlin.

Residencies
  • 2013