Croatian Cultural Thursdays invites you to the promotion of newly released
APRIL FOOL'S DAY by Josip Novakovich
Thursday, September 30, 2004
7 PM
Auditorium below the Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius
502 West 41 Street (10 and 11 ave)
Info: kdeletis@excite.com
Please join us after the reading for book signing!
More information: kdeletis@excite.com
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Croatian-born Josip Novakovich moved to the United States at the age of twenty. He has published two story collections (Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays (Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O.Henry Prize Stories. His textbook, Fiction Writer’s Workshop, was a Book of the Month Club selection. His novel Poppy Slopes is to be published in Spain (in Spanish). He received the Whiting Writer’s Award (1997), Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1991 and 2002), the Ingram Merrill Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and he has been a writing fellow of the New York City Public Library. His work has appeared in many journals, including Paris Review, Threepenny Review, The New York Times Magazine, European Magazine, and he contributes regularly to the Zagreb daily Jutarnji list. Mr. Novakovich teaches in the MFA program at Penn State University.
Croatian Cultural Thursdays invites you to the promotion of newly released
APRIL FOOL'S DAY by Josip Novakovich
Thursday, September 30, 2004
7 PM
Auditorium below the Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius
502 West 41 Street (10 and 11 ave)
Info: kdeletis@excite.com
Please join us after the reading for book signing!
More information: kdeletis@excite.com
****************************************
Croatian-born Josip Novakovich moved to the United States at the age of twenty. He has published two story collections (Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays (Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O.Henry Prize Stories. His textbook, Fiction Writer’s Workshop, was a Book of the Month Club selection. His novel Poppy Slopes is to be published in Spain (in Spanish). He received the Whiting Writer’s Award (1997), Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1991 and 2002), the Ingram Merrill Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and he has been a writing fellow of the New York City Public Library. His work has appeared in many journals, including Paris Review, Threepenny Review, The New York Times Magazine, European Magazine, and he contributes regularly to the Zagreb daily Jutarnji list. Mr. Novakovich teaches in the MFA program at Penn State University.