Lara Vapnyar In The News
Russian-American author discusses ‘Jews in her house'
The New Yorker
Mother Russia - A Q. and A. With Lara Vapnyar
The New York Observer
A Few Streaks of Bright Life In a Doggedly Desperate Place
The Boston Globe
Russian writers explore the immigrant experience
New York Times
Her Killer Meatballs Are the Stuff of Fiction
Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
Lara Vapnyar 2004, There Are Jews in My House
Past Events
There Are Jews in My House: A Reading and Conversation with Lara Vapnyar
Winner of the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
5:15 p.m.
Rapaporte Treasure Hall,
Goldfarb Library
Open to the public.
Reception and book signing to follow.
Lara Vapnyar is lauded by many critics as one of the most promising new literary voices in the nation. She emigrated from Moscow in 1994. Her first English-language work was published in 2002. Her 2004 collection of short stories, There Are Jews in My House, won the 2004 Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers. Her stories have been published in such magazines as The New Yorker, the New York Observer, and Harper's Magazine. She has also published Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love and Memoirs of a Muse.
This event was sponsored by the Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry (BGI). Co-sponsored by Creative Writing, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and Russian Studies.