Embassy Information
Embassy Event
ANNIE PROULX AT THE BOOK FAIR AND MALBA
April 25-27, 2009
Invited by the U.S. Embassy, renowned American writer Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, both made into films, visited Buenos Aires to lecture at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair and the MALBA (Buenos Aires Latin American Art Museum).
Ms. Proulx, recognized as one of the best chronicles of rural life in the United States, gave a lecture at the 35° Buenos Aires International Book Fair on Saturday, April 25. She talked about the relationship between geography and fiction. More than 300 people attended the event. After her lecture, Ms. Proulx visited the U. S. Embassy booth to sign her books.
On Monday, April 27 Annie Proulx gave a lecture on “Literature as your Life” at MALBA (Buenos Aires Latin American Art Museum). Writers, students, and general public enjoyed her talk.
Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935, in Norwich, Connecticut. Proulx attended Colby College in Maine briefly in the 1950s but left to work different jobs. She received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Vermont in 1969 and a master's degree from Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada, in 1973. In tiny towns in Vermont, Proulx spent her time fishing, hunting, and canoeing, and began working as a freelance journalist. Proulx published her first book, Heart Songs and Other Stories, in 1988. In 1992 her first novel, Postcards, was published, and won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. The next year, Proulx published g The Shipping News. The book resulted in a steady stream of awards: first, the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune, followed by the Irish Times International Award, and the National Book Award. These honors were all topped by the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
In 1999 Proulx released Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which won a book award from The New Yorker for best work of fiction. In 2001 The Shipping News was released as a film. Her short story Brokeback Mountain, from Close Range, was also release as a film directed by Ang Lee, and awarded four Golden Globe Awards and three Oscars.
