I'm all for this. As a judge of novellas, I'm a semi-fictional character, so thought I'd answet, too.

David

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From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cheek, Christopher F. Dr. [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: award-winning German writer coming in Spring 2013

Hi Mariana,

I'm copying in my colleagues in the fiction cohort. It's they who program the fiction writers that we bring on to campus and thereby control the budget for fiction. I DO know that they have already got a packed program for the spring and that we don't have a lot of money. But there is a serious interest in literature in translation in the creative writing cohort.

I CAN certainly indicate strong support and await the response of my colleagues. I expect they will get back to me quickly.



cris



On Dec 10, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Ivanova, Mariana Z Dr. wrote:

> Dear Prof. Cheek:
>
> as you have perhaps learned already from a previous email that Prof. Goodman sent you.
>
>
> I am writing to announce the upcoming visit of award-winning and prolific contemporary author Tanja Dückers. She will come to Miami University on April 15th-17th 2013.
>
> I am writing to you to inquire if the Creative Writing Program will be interested in sponsoring this event. Miss Dückers is one of the best known writers in contemporary Germany and her visit might be a good opportunity to reach out to students who are interested in the process of creative writing and publishing, as she will give a workshop on those topics.
>
>
> In Spring 2013, Tanja Dückers will be the Max Kade Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College.
> She is very enthusiastic, easily approachable and eager to meet and work with our students.
> In addition, she will also read from her most recent work, and will lecture in English on the creative writing process.
>
> I am applying for one of the Humanities Center grants for Spring 2013 in order to secure part of the expenses for Dückers' visit. In addition, I will also contact other programs and departments at Miami University, but I am not yet sure how much they will contribute to the event. For now, the GREAL Dept. has promised $ 200 and the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Program has sponsored $ 150. We need around $ 1,500 on top of that... Therefore, I would suggest a contribution in the range of $ 300-400 depending on your available funds.
> As this event will benefit mostly students in GREAL and Creative Writing, I am hoping that you will be interested in contributing and supporting this unique opportunity for Miami students to meet a contemporary women writer.
>
> Please do let me know in the next one to two weeks if you would be interested in co-sponsoring this event and about what might you be interested in terms of events for your students.
>
>
> SHORT BIO
> Tanja Dückers was born on 25 September 1968 in West Berlin. She lives in Berlin as a freelance writer and journalist for national German media.
> After an extended stay in the United States, she studied German and American Studies as well as Art History at Berlin’s Free University and at Amsterdam University, graduating with an interdisciplinary dissertation on the Aesthetic of the Sublime in Modern Painting.
> Her first novel, "Spielzone," was published shortly after she graduated, in 1999. Ever since, she has been a prolific writer of internationally received novels and short stories, such as "Café Brazil" (2001), "Himmelskörper" (2003), "Der längste Tag des Jahres" (2006), and - most recently - "Hausers Zimmer" (2011). In her work, she addresses the German national past and challenges existing preconceptions of
> As a journalist, Tanja Dückers writes for various newspapers and magazines, including "Die Zeit," "Der Spiegel," "Die Welt," "National Geographic," and many others.  Her essays and commentaries have been recently collected in the anthology "Morgen nach Utopia: Essays and Reportagen" (2007)
> Scholarships and teaching jobs have taken her, among other places, to Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, Amsterdam, Bristol, Barcelona, Paris, Prague, Bucharest, and Salzburg.
>
>
> AWARDS (Selection):
> 1996    La Belle Literature Prize for short prose
> 1998    Invitation to the Literature Course in Klagenfurt / Austria
> 2000    Young Talent Prize from the Ruhr Valley Literature Awards
> 2002    1st Prize in the Kargo Europa competition (Autorinnenforum e.V.)
> 2003    Leonce und Lena poetry competition, Darmstadt
> 2004    Invitation to the German-French-Polish Writers Meeting in Wroclaw / Poland
> 2nd Prize from the Polish Embassy and the Polish Culture Institute, Berlin
> 2005    Winner of the competition of the Library of German Poetry
> 2006    Nominated by the German Historical Museum, Berlin, as one of Germany’s 40 most important writers under 40 (and among Germany’s top 100 creative people)
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>
>
> All my best,
>
> Mariana Ivanova
>
>
> Mariana Ivanova, Ph.D.
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages
> Miami University
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>
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