Literature Mentors and Protégés
2010/2011 Mentor and Protégée
Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Tracy K. Smith
The mentor, a master of German letters, moves easily across forms and genres in a way that inspired his protégée, a young poet, as she explored a new literary medium, the memoir.
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
Tracy K. Smith
releases her new collection, Life on Mars, to extraordinary critical praise
Edem
explores water and erosion through the characters in his third novel
Julia Leigh
Her first feature film premieres at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
Tracy K. Smith
Listen to the mentoring pair “in conversation” through their poetry
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