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Hanif Abdurraqib talks to us about collecting first editions, meeting his hero, and the writer he is today vs should be.
What do you like to collect?
Hanif Abdurraqib is a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient.
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Here's Hanif Abdurraqib (@nifmuhammad), a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for nonfiction, reading from his @NYTimes bestseller, 'There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension', a lyrical, historical, & emotionally rich exploration of his lifelong love of basketball.
A writer of extraordinary depth, style, and range, Hanif Abdurraqib (@nifmuhammad) is a public intellectual in the truest sense of the term, combining discursive flexibility with a profound emotional and intellectual rigor.
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Next up in #WindhamCampbellPrizes 2024 recipients spotlight is Columbus, Ohio native, Hanif Abdurraqib.
Hanif is recognised for his moving body of highly acclaimed literary criticism, including the Carnegie Medal winning 'A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance.'
'This is a book very important to me… 'Nursery Stories’… it was a book that led me into the world of writing, and maybe even more than that, into the whole world of the imagination' - Deirdre Madden, a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for Fiction.
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Here's Deirdre Madden, a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for Fiction, reading from her compelling novel 'The Birds of the Innocent Wood' which was published in 1988 and won a Somerset Maugham Award.
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Windham-Campbell Prizes features The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey in their newsletter, noting that the book was inspired by Trethewey's keynote lecture at the 2022 festival.
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'I always think of writing as much more of an artisan activity than an intellectual activity'
Deirdre Madden’s stories show us how we are both bound and freed by the “unholy wind” of time. Her characters’ lives are intersected by extraordinary events
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We asked Deirdre Madden, a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for Fiction, a series of quick fire questions in this special Q&A.
Check out the video below to hear some of Madden’s top #WritingTips and much more! 🖋️💡