Video Library - Last Names M—P
Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon, born in Belfast in 1941, is one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Mr. Mahon has published more than 12 books of poetry, as well as several verse translations. He read from his Selected Poems on March 8, 1994.
Running Time: 45 minutes
©1994 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940399
David Malouf
David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1934. He has written seven books of poetry, seven novels, novellas, a memoir, and a play. His novels include The Conversations at Curlow Creek, An Imaginary Life, and Remembering Babylon, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest award for a single literary work. On January 20, 1998, Mr. Malouf read from his memoir Twelve Edmondstone Street and his novels, An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon. He talked with Erroll McDonald, the executive editor at Pantheon books.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1998 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940674
Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, has said that the source of her art is the expressive talk she heard as a girl among West Indian women in her mother’s kitchen. Ms. Marshall, who received a MacArthur Fellowship, has written four novels and two collections of stories. On April 12, 1994, she read from Daughters in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1994 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940402
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen, born in 1927, is a writer, naturalist, activist, and explorer of geographies and the human condition. His novels include Killing Mr. Watson, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, and Far Tortuga. His nonfiction books include The Snow Leopard, which won the National Book Award, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Mr. Matthiessen read from Killing Mr. Watson and Lost Man’s River on November 21, 1996 and talked with Howard Norman whose books include The Museum Guard, The Bird Artist, and The Northern Lights.
Running Time: 77 minutes
©1997 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 15739405805
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W. S. Merwin is a distinguished poet, playwright, and translator, whose book The Carrier of Ladders received the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Merwin reads from Selected Poems and The Rain in the Trees. Mr. Merwin was interviewed by Lewis MacAdams. The reading took place in Los Angeles on May 16, 1988.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 157394002
W.S. Merwin Volume II
W. S. Merwin is a distinguished poet, playwright, and translator of books of poetry, most recently Dante’s Purgatorio. He has published numerous books that explore the relationship between language and landscape, including The Folding Cliffs, The River Sound, The Vixen, The Carrier of Ladders, and Flower & Hand. Mr. Merwin, a recipient of the Pulitzer, Tanning, and the Ruth Lilly prizes, read on October 18, 2000. He talked with Naomi Shihab Nye, whose poetry books include The Words Under the Words, Fuel, and Red Suitcase.
Running Time: 87 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940887
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Czeslaw Milosz, born in Lithuania in 1911, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Mr. Milosz worked for the resistance in Warsaw during World War II, editing anti-Nazi books and pamphlets. He has published 21 books of poetry since his first, A Poem on Frozen Time, appeared in 1933. English translations of his poetry include The Separate Notebooks, Unattainable Earth, Collected Poems 1931-1987, and Facing the River. He has also written two novels and seventeen nonfiction books, including The Captive Mind and Native Realm. Mr. Milosz read on March 26, 1998, and talked with poetry critic and Harvard Professor, Helen Vendler.
Running Time: 77 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940763
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Czeslaw Milosz born in Lithuania in 1911 to a Polish-speaking family, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Mr. Milosz is one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. He read from The Collected Poems, The Separate Notebooks, and Unattainable Earth. The reading took place on September 12, 1988, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940054
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Richard Nelson, a writer, anthropologist, and environmental activist, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1941. Mr. Nelson has spent 25 years studying the relationship between native people in Alaska and their environments. Mr. Nelson, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, read from The Island Within and Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America on April 14, 1998. He talked with Gary Nabhan, an ethnobotanist and natural history writer, whose books include Cultures of Habitat, The Forgotten Pollinators, and Gathering the Desert.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1998 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940690
Edna O'Brien
Edna O’Brien is a novelist and short story writer who has published more than 18 books, including Down by the River, House of Splendid Isolation, The Country Girls Trilogy, and Lantern Slides. Described as a "poet of heartbreak," Ms. O’Brien draws on her childhood in rural Ireland to write stories about private sorrows, passion, and sexuality. Ms. O’Brien read from the story "Brother" and from Down by the River on May 12, 1998. She talked with Tobias Wolff, the author of two memoirs, This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, as well as three collections of stories, including The Night in Question.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1997 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940704
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds is the author of more than four books of poetry. Whether her subject be family life or political events, she writes in a style noted for its lyrical grace, exactness of description, and emotional honesty. Her first book, Satan Says, received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award, and her second book, The Dead and the Living, won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Ms. Olds read from The Gold Cell, The Dead and the Living, and from work in progress on April 8, 1991, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1991 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940267
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje, born in Sri Lanka in 1943, is a novelist, poet, and playwright. He received the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient. Mr. Ondaatje read from new poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, and Running in the Family on December 17, 1996. Mr. Ondaatje was interviewed by Caryl Phillips, the author of six novels, including The Nature of Blood, Crossing the River, Cambridge, and Higher Ground. Mr. Phillips received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
Running Time: 90 minutes
©1991 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940607
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Grace Paley, born in 1922 in the Bronx, New York, is a poet and short story writer. Her three books of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day, were published together in The Collected Stories. A Lannan Literary Award recipient, Grace Paley read three stories, "Friends," "Love," and "Mother" on May 7, 1996. Ms. Paley talked with Carol Muske Dukes, whose books of poetry include Red Trousseau and Applause.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1996 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940542
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. He read from The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957-1987, in Spanish, with his translator Eliot Weinberger, who read the English versions of the poems. The reading took place on October 18, 1988, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Paz was interviewed in English by poet Lewis MacAdams and in Spanish by Professor Enrico Santi.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940062
Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and has published five works of fiction, including Cambridge and Higher Ground. His powerful work has explored the African diaspora and charted the anatomy of slavery. He read from Crossing the River, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize, on March 7, 1995, in Los Angeles. A writer-in-residence at Amherst College, Mr. Phillips received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1994. He talked with essayist and novelist Pico Iyer, whose books include Video Nights in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, Falling Off the Map, and Cuba and the Night.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1995 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940453
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