Join us for a reading and conversation with 2024 Claire and Emmet Dedmon Writer-in-Residence Hernan Diaz, moderated by Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas.
Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of two novels translated into thirty-four languages. He is the recipient of the John Updike award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, given to “a writer whose contributions to American literature have demonstrated consistent excellence.” His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and it was the winner of the Saroyan International Prize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among other distinctions. It was also a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year and one of Lit Hub’s 20 Best Novels of the Decade. Trust, his second novel, received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Booker Prize, among other nominations. It was listed as a best book of the year by over thirty publications and named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker’s 12 Essential Reads of the Year. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022, Trust is currently being developed as a limited series for HBO. Hernan Diaz’s stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Granta, The Yale Review, Playboy, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Diaz holds a PhD from NYU, edits an academic journal at Columbia University, and is also the author of Borges, between History and Eternity. For more information on Diaz, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.
Literary Arts Lab: Art and Wonder is a two-day festival of public readings, panels, craft talks, and Q&As featuring writers Arda Collins, Hernan Diaz, Renee Gladman, and Joy Harjo in conversation with UChicago faculty, students, and community members. Join us as we explore the intersections between art, wonder, imagination, and writing craft. Free and open to everyone.
Sponsored by the Claire and Emmet Dedmon Writer-in-Residence Series and presented in partnership with the Poetry and the Human Core; the Department of English Language and Literature; the Office of Multicultural Affairs; the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity; the Committee on Social Thought; the Division of the Humanities; and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores