| John Biguenet is the Robert Hunter
Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.
His fiction, poetry,
and essays have appeared recently in such journals as The New
York Times, the
Washington Post, Esquire,
Granta, Story, Zoetrope: All-Story, DoubleTake, Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine, and Ploughshares as well as in various anthologies. Oyster,
a novel, was published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
in the U.S. and by Orion Books in the U.K. The Torturer's Apprentice,
a collection of his stories, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins
and by Orion Books in the U.K. Both books will
be published in Hebrew translation by Matar Publishing Company in
Tel Aviv and in French translation by Éditions Albin Michel
in Paris, and both books were Book Sense 76 selections. His books
The Craft of Translation and Theories of Translation, co-edited with
Rainer Schulte, were published by The University of Chicago Press.
An earlier book, Foreign Fictions, was published by Random House.
Biguenet edited over fifty issues of The New Orleans Review, an international
journal of film, art, and literature. His radio play Wundmale, which
premiered on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany's largest radio
network, was rebroadcast by Österreichischer Rundfunk, the
Austrian national radio and |
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Baquet |
| television network.
Two of his stories have been featured in Selected Shorts at Symphony
Space on Broadway.
The Vulgar Soul was presented in the 2004 Southern New Plays
Festival and was a featured production in 2005 at Southern Rep
Theatre; he and the play were profiled in American Theatre magazine.
His new play, Rising Water, will premiere in 2007. His work has
received an O. Henry Award and a Harper's Magazine Writing Award
among other distinctions, and his stories have been reprinted
in The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 and Prize Stories 2000:
The O. Henry Awards and cited in The Pushcart Prizes and in The
Best American Short Stories for 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2002 as
well as in Prize Stories 2002: The O. Henry Awards. He was the
recipient of a Louisiana Artist Fellowship in literature in 2003
and of an ATLAS grant for fiction in 2005. He became The New
York Times first guest columnist with his series of fifteen columns
and videos, "Back to New Orleans," in October 2005.
He has served two terms as president of the American Literary
Translators Association. Formerly Writer-in-Residence at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock and at the University of
Texas at Dallas, he is the Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor
at Loyola University in New Orleans. |
