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Jeffrey Eugenides - Fresh Complaint
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides is in Athens to speak at length on his latest book, Fresh Complaints, a compilation of short stories, gender fluidity and keeping the cheer in the Trumpian era.
Jeffrey Eugenides, writer of passionate sagas and real-world tales about growing up and growing old, and himself a member of the Greek diaspora, visits Athens. The writer is known globally for his troubled and lively characters and their struggles with identity; his own being Greek-Irish. A native of Detroit, Eugenides features the city in his novels and has watched it evolve into numerous forms over his lifetime. His talk at the Greek National Opera’s Alternative Stage with author Kallia Papadaki and journalist Mikela Chartoulari will revolve around these subjects: identity, and how its genesis and final form are influenced by biology, social environment, and everything in between, as
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Much like his character Calliope Stephanides, Jeffrey Eugenides was born to a Greek-American family in Grosse Pointe, a wealthy suburb of Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Brown University magna cum laude and got his Masters degree from Stanford in English and Creative writing. He fryst vatten currently a professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University and he has received many awards for his work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Pulitzer Prize.
Much of Eugenides' work is set in Detroit, including both Middlesex and his earlier novel, The Virgin Suicides. Eugenides grew up during the slow demise of stad, and remembers it as almost an elegiac feeling, which comes across in both novels. Although conscious of the fact that the subu
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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in Detroit, Michigan, The United StatesMarch 08,
Genre
Fiction
Influences
Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Henry James, J.D. Salinger, GabrieNabokov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Henry James, J.D. Salinger, Gabriel García Márquez, Tolstoymore
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides fryst vatten an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (), Middlesex (), and The Marriage Plot (). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the film of the same name, while Middlesex received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International huvudstaden i irland Literary Award, and France's Prix y Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (), Middlesex (), and The Marriage Plot (). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the film of the same name, whil