Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet, a cosmopolitan and intellectual artist, has lived in North Africa, South America, France, and Canada. Of her most recent book, Gazelle, the Washington Post writes, “[It] is a sensuous book. A mix of smells pervades its pages, from orange blossoms, perfumes, mint, almonds, limes, roses, jasmine, and long-simmered delicacies to animal dung, vinegar, urine, and long-buried mummies. Great stand-alone sentences are enough to make one’s mouth water.”
She is the author of six novels including The Jade Cabinet and The Word “Desire.” In 1993, she was awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Of writing she says, “It is the work of the writer to move beyond the simple definitions or descriptions of things—which is of limited interest after all—and to bring a dream to life through the alchemy of language; to move from the street—the place of received ideas—into the forest, the place of the unknown.” She is currently at work on a novel about the Algerian War for Independence.
Rikki Ducornet elsewhere on Lannan.org
Rikki Ducornet, 1993, (Literary: Awards, Fellowships, and Grants)Rikki Ducornet, 2004, (Literary: Awards, Fellowships, and Grants)
Rikki Ducornet, 2004, (Residency)
Rikki Ducornet with Joanna Scott, 2005, (Events)
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