Literature Mentors and Protégés

2010/2011 Mentor and Protégée

Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Tracy K. Smith

The mentor moves across forms and genres in a way that inspires the poet protégée, who endeavours to write her first novel.

2008/2009 Mentor and Protégée

Wole Soyinka and Tara June Winch

Worlds apart in terms of geography, culture and experience, the paths of the mentor and protégée converged naturally, as a vital experience of life and literature brought them together in a close, spontaneous partnership.

2006/2007 Mentor and Protégé

Tahar Ben Jelloun and Edem

Each living far from his birthplace, the mentor and protégé meet in their literary explorations of exclusion and exile.

2004/2005 Mentor and Protégé

Mario Vargas Llosa and Antonio García Ángel

Antonio García Ángel thought Mario Vargas Llosa was going to help him write a new novel. In fact, Llosa showed him a whole new way of working.

2002/2003 Mentor and Protégée

Toni Morrison and Julia Leigh

On the basis of work-in-progress Leigh sent, Morrison knew that Leigh was the one. “Her plans and ideas were so compelling to me,” she says.

LITERATURE FEATURES

Julia Leigh

is working on an original screenplay after the resounding success of her second novel

Antonio García Ángel

is exploring the novella and short text forms in his third book

Edem

has begun a third book whose story of a quest examines the erosion of both earth and memory

The 2010/2011 Literature Finalists

The 2010/2011 Literature Finalists

Discover the talented artists selected as Literature finalists

Programme Overview

The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative

Discover how Rolex helps perpetuate the world’s artistic heritage