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American poet, author, and translator
Anna Elizabeth Moschovakis is a Greek American poet, author, and translator.
Early life
Moschovakis was born to an American mother and a Greek father.
[1] She split her time growing up between the U.S. and Greece, where her father owned what she described as "a small apartment in a port-side suburb on the outskirts of
Athens ".
[1] She has one brother.
[1] She received a
BA in philosophy from the
University of California at Berkeley , an
MFA from the
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at
Bard College , and an
MA in comparative literature (French and American) from the
CUNY Graduate Center .
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Career
Moschovakis is a founding member of Bushel Collective and the publishing collective
Ugly Duckling Presse .
[4] She is a faculty member of
Bard College 's
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts , as well as an adjunct associate professor in the Writing MFA program at
Pratt Institute .
[2] Her writing has appeared in
The Paris Review ,
The Believer and
The Iowa Review .
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Moschovakis' book of poetry, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake , won the
James Laughlin Award in 2011.
[8] Her first novel, Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love , was published in 2018 and was called "remarkable" by the
Los Angeles Review of Books .
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Moschovakis translated
David Diop 's 2018 novel
At Night All Blood Is Black from French into English.
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[11] The author and Moschovakis were awarded the 2021
International Booker Prize .
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Personal life
Moschovakis lives in
South Kortright, New York .
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Bibliography
Poetry
I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone (2006)
You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (2011)
They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (2016)
Novels
Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (2018)
Participation (2022)
Translations
Awards and honors
References
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"ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS" . THIS LONG CENTURY .
Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"Anna Moschovakis" . Poetry Foundation . April 8, 2021.
Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"Prize Winner" . Academy of American Poets .
Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"Mission – B U S H E L" . B U S H E L . February 12, 2021.
Archived from the original on March 20, 2020. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
^ Moschovakis, Anna (August 16, 2018).
"The Capacity to Be Alone" . The Paris Review .
Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"Anna Moschovakis" . Believer Magazine . January 30, 2019.
Archived from the original on March 3, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
^ Moschovakis, Anna (September 10, 2015).
"The Explanation" . The Iowa Review . 28 (2): 99–100.
doi :
10.17077/0021-065X.5018 .
Archived from the original on July 10, 2020. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"James Laughlin Award" . Academy of American Poets . December 21, 2020.
Archived from the original on April 23, 2009. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
^ Sakada (September 28, 2018).
"A Jenga Tower: Anna Moschovakis's 'Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love' " . Los Angeles Review of Books .
Archived from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"The International Booker Prize 2021" . The Booker Prizes .
Archived from the original on April 7, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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Obioma, Chigozie (November 10, 2020).
"In the Trenches of World War I, a Bloody Ritual Fueled by Guilt" .
The New York Times .
Archived from the original on March 30, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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" 'At Night All Blood Is Black', winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize | The Booker Prizes" . thebookerprizes.com . Retrieved June 8, 2021 .
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"Former Fellows 2001" . The Edward F. Albee Foundation .
Archived from the original on November 29, 2020. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"Stacks: Three Decades of Writing Fellows with an Installation by Anne Muntges" . NYFA . October 22, 2015.
Archived from the original on June 4, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
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"Previous Fellowship Awardees – Howard Foundation" . Brown University .
Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021 .
^ Pineda, Dorany (April 17, 2021).
"Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced" . Los Angeles Times .
Archived from the original on May 21, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021 .
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"International Booker Prize: David Diop becomes first French winner" . BBC News . June 2, 2021.
Archived from the original on June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 2, 2021 .
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