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Truro author Maria Flook is among this year’s Guggenheim winners. |
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Maria Flook wins Guggenheim prize
Banner Daily Update posted Fri. April 27
Rob Phelps
Banner Correspondent
It’s the feathers that tickle Truro writer Maria Flook most about winning a prestigious fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Flook loves the fact that one of her fellow recipients is an expert in the art of plumage from Yale University’s ornithology department. Another winner studies gas and stars in the early universe, while another composes music based on Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. Past writer recipients have included the late Provincetown resident and former U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz, the frequent Fine Arts Work Center instructor Grace Paley, playwright Wendy Wasserstein, and novelist Vladimir Nabokov. From feathers to fiction, diversity marks this fellowship.
“I’m truly honored to be chosen among such a wide assortment of distinguished characters,” Flook says. “It’s very competitive. Writers don’t have to present as big an application as the molecular biologists, but we’re judged on our work just the same.”
The foundation’s mission is to grant the selected individuals a six- to twelve-month block of time during which they may work with as much creative freedom as possible. Recipients may use this time and the funds in any way they feel their work requires.
See the May 3 Banner for a more indepth look at the Guggenheim Prize and Flook's take on her win.
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Apr 26th, 2007