Fundación García Lorca
Fundación García Lorca
El Centro Federico García Lorca y la Fundación Federico García Lorca organizan en Granada una lectura de poemas con el escritor Forrest Gander, último premio Pulitzer de Poesía.
Forrest Gander (1956) es poeta, ensayista, traductor y novelista. Ha sido profesor en Providence University y en Harvard University, antes de su actual nombramiento como Profesor Emérito A. K. Seaver of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature de la Universidad de Brown. Es también presidente de la Academy of American Poets desde 2017.
Forrest Gander (James Forrest Cockerille III) nació en el Desierto del Mojave. Su madre, soltera y maestra de escuela, crió a Forrest y a sus dos hermanas en Virginia. Los cuatro compartían un apartamento de dos habitaciones en Annandale; el padre ausente llevaba el bar The Mod Scene, en la calle Bleeker de Greenwich Village, Nueva York. Empezó a viajar en coche por todo Estados Unidos con su madre y sus hermanas durante las vacaciones. Estos viajes continuos conformaron su interés por el paisaje, las lenguas y las culturas. Walter J. Gander adoptó a Forrest y a sus hermanas Karin y Lisa, poco después de casarse con su madre, Ruth Clare.
Gander es licenciado en Literatura Inglesa y en Geología, temas recurrentes en su poesía y ensayos. Su obra se ha relacionado con la ecopoética y la ecología. Escritor de diversos géneros, Gander es conocido por su colaboraciones con otros artistas. Es United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow, y obtuvo becas extraordinarias de la Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation y la Howard Foundation.
Gander ha recibido el Premio Pulitzer de Poesía de 2019 por el libro Be With.
Forrest Gander(born 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With, and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Born in the Mojave Desert as James Forrest Cockerille III, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia where he and his two sisters were raised by their single mother, an elementary school teacher. The four shared a two-room apartment in Annandale; Gander’s estranged father ran The Mod Scene, a bar on Bleecker St. in Greenwich Village, NY. With his mother and sisters, Gander began to travel extensively on summer road trips around the United States. The traveling, which never stopped, came to inform his interest in landscapes, languages, and cultures. Forrest and his two sisters, Karin and Lisa, were adopted by Walter J. Gander soon after Walter Gander’s marriage to their mother, the former Ruth Clare Cockerille. Gander earned college degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and in English literature. His work has been linked to ecopoetics and ecology.
A writer in multiple genres, Gander is noted for his many collaborations with other artists. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. In 2017, he was elected as a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets and in 2019, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He taught at Providence College and at Harvard University before becoming the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Rhode Island.