Literature Mentors and Protégés
2008/2009 Mentor and Protégée
Wole Soyinka and Tara June Winch
Wole Soyinka encourages young writers to look within their own cultures for idioms of expression and his protégée does just that. Under the guidance of her mentor, Tara June hopes to complete her second manuscript.
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
The 2008/2009 Literature Finalists
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Julia Leigh Settles in New York
The Australian author expands her writing repertoire
Edem: My Relationship with Writing
Read Edem’s personal essay describing his relationship to writing
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The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
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