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'''Terese Svoboda''' is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic and videomaker.


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[[File:Terese Svoboda BBF 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|Svoboda at the 2011 [[Brooklyn Book Festival]]]]'''Terese Svoboda''' is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic and videomaker.
Svoboda is the author of nine collections of poetry, six novels, three collections of short fiction, a memoir and a book of translations from the Nuer.


She graduated from [[Columbia University School of the Arts]].<ref>{{Cite web |title="Dog on Fire" by Terese Svoboda '78 Coming Soon from Flyover Fiction {{!}} School of the Arts |url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/dog-fire-terese-svoboda-78-coming-soon-flyover-fiction |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=arts.columbia.edu}}</ref> She was Distinguished Writer in Residence at [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|University of Hawaii]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visiting Writers and Distinguished Writers in Residence – Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |url=https://english.hawaii.edu/visiting-writers/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |language=en-US}}</ref> and McGee Visiting professor of writing at [[Davidson College]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Program: English - Davidson College - Acalog ACMS™ |url=https://catalog.davidson.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=8&poid=318 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=catalog.davidson.edu}}</ref> She taught at [[Columbia University School of the Arts]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda {{!}} Superstition Review |url=https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue5/interviews/teresesvoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=superstitionreview.asu.edu}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
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Svoboda was raised in Nebraska. She attended local schools, then matriculated at [[Manhattanville College]], the [[University of Nebraska]], [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Oxford University]], [[Stanford University]], the [[University of Colorado]], and the [[University of British Columbia]], where she graduated with a B.F.A. in studio art and creative writing. [[Columbia University]] awarded her an M.F.A.


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The opera ''Wet'', for which she wrote the libretto, premiered at RedCat at L.A. Disney Hall in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anne Lebaron and Terese Svoboda: Wet|url=http://www.redcat.org/event/anne-lebaron-and-terese-svoboda-wet|publisher=REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater). redcat.org|access-date=2018-01-01}}</ref> Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Terese Svoboda|date=17 June 2011 |url=https://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/terese-svoboda|publisher=[[Experimental Television Center]]|access-date=2023-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Terese Svoboda|url=http://www.vtape.org/artist?ai=195}}</ref> In writing about her work, reviewers have noted her frequent use of [[humor]] to address dire subjects,<ref>{{cite news|title=Pirate Talk or Mermalade|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9826318-0-5}}</ref> her interest in fabulism,<ref>{{cite news|title=Tin God|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8032-4331-6}}</ref> and her lyrical use of language, especially as a poet writing prose.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Drink Called Paradise|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58243-001-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Weapons Grade|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55728-906-3}}</ref>
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==Career==
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Svoboda is the author of seven collections of poetry, six novels, two collections of short fiction, a memoir, a biography and a book of translation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Terese Svoboda|url=https://www.amazon.com/Terese-Svoboda/e/B001JRZSKU|accessdate=2014-10-16}}</ref> The opera ''Wet'', for which she wrote the libretto, premiered at RedCat at L.A. Disney Hall in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anne Lebaron and Terese Svoboda: Wet|url=http://www.redcat.org/event/anne-lebaron-and-terese-svoboda-wet|publisher=REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater). redcat.org|accessdate=2018-01-01}}</ref> Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Terese Svoboda|url=http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/terese-svoboda|publisher=[[Experimental Television Center]]. experimentaltvcenter.org|accessdate=2018-01-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Terese Svoboda|url=http://www.vtape.org/artist?ai=195}}</ref> In writing about her work, reviewers have noted her frequent use of [[humor]] to address dire subjects,<ref>{{cite news|title=Pirate Talk or Mermalade|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9826318-0-5}}</ref> her interest in fabulism,<ref>{{cite news|title=Tin God|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8032-4331-6}}</ref> and her lyrical use of language, especially as a poet writing prose.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Drink Called Paradise|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58243-001-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Weapons Grade|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55728-906-3}}</ref> An ardent unconventional feminist, she often writes about women in the Midwest in a way that has been termed “exotic, sophisticated, and heartbreaking.”<ref>{{cite web|title=An interview with Ladette Randolph|url=http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tsvoboda/2011/10/an-interview-with-ladette-randolph/|website=www.thenervousbreakdown.com|accessdate=16 October 2014}}</ref> Her travels for the Smithsonian's Anthropology Film Archive to the South Pacific and the South Sudan provide additional settings. Postwar Japan is the location for her memoir about executions of U.S. servicemen by U.S. authorities. Her work has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Poetry, New York Times, Slate, Paris Review. “Astounding” said the New York Post about her memoir, ''Black Glasses Like Clark Kent''; “Magisterial” said the Washington Post about her biography Anything That Burns You.
''Theatrix: Play Poems'' is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in 2021.


An ardent unconventional feminist, she often writes about women in the Midwest in a way that has been termed “exotic, sophisticated, and heartbreaking.”<ref>{{cite web|title=An interview with Ladette Randolph|url=http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tsvoboda/2011/10/an-interview-with-ladette-randolph/|website=www.thenervousbreakdown.com|date=October 2011 |access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> Her travels for the Smithsonian's Anthropology Film Archive to the South Pacific and the South Sudan provide additional settings. Postwar Japan is the location for her memoir about executions of U.S. servicemen by U.S. authorities.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan by Terese Svoboda |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781555974909 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}</ref>
==Teaching==

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Her work has appeared in ''[[AGNI (magazine)|AGNI]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-30 |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/terese-svoboda/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=AGNI Online |language=en}}</ref> [[Granta]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://granta.com/contributor/terese-svoboda/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Granta |language=en-US}}</ref> [[The New Yorker]], [[The Atlantic]], [[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2024-05-01 |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/terese-svoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref> [[The New York Times]], [[Narrative Magazine|Narrative]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Svoboda |first=Terese |date=2008-06-06 |title=Terese Svoboda {{!}} Narrative Magazine |url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/terese-svoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www.narrativemagazine.com |language=en}}</ref> [[Slate]], [[The Paris Review|Paris Review]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/authors/5660/terese-svoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=The Paris Review |language=en}}</ref> The New York Post described her memoir, ''Black Glasses Like Clark Kent'' as "astounding"; The Washington Post regarded her biography ''Anything That Burns You'' as "magisterial".
Svoboda has held visiting teaching appointments at Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, Bennington College, the University of Miami, the University of Tampa, Fordham, Fairleigh Dickinson, Wichita State, Williams College, San Francisco State College, the College of William and Mary, Stonybook/Southampton College, and Columbia University's School of the Arts. Twice she has been the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii, and once the McGee Professor at Davidson College. She has also taught for the [[Summer Literary Seminars Program]] in St. Petersburg, Russia and Tiblsi, Georgia, the ''[[Kwani?]]'' LitFest in Kenya, and for the State Department and the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in Kenya. She has lectured at the [[Norman Mailer's Writers Colony]], U. of Wellington (Victoria) Masters program in New Zealand, and as the Pabst Endowed Chair at [[Atlantic Center for the Arts]].


==South Sudan==
==South Sudan==
After translating the songs of the Nuer people of the South Sudan on a PEN/Columbia Fellowship, she founded a scholarship for Nuer high school students in Nebraska.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nuer scholarship|url=http://www.theindependent.com/news/abbott-sisters-living-legacy/article_33be6796-3dcb-5e4b-993b-f7aad399be30.html?mode=jqm|website=www.theindependent.com}}</ref> She was consulting producer for "The Quilted Conscience," a PBS documentary on South Sudanese girls learning to quilt with Nebraskan women.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nuer scholarship|url=http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2013/07/from-the-desk-of-terese-svoboda.htm|website=nebraskapress.typepad.com}}</ref>
After translating the songs of the Nuer people of the South Sudan on a PEN/Columbia Fellowship, she founded a scholarship for Nuer high school students in Nebraska.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nuer scholarship|url=http://www.theindependent.com/news/abbott-sisters-living-legacy/article_33be6796-3dcb-5e4b-993b-f7aad399be30.html?mode=jqm|website=www.theindependent.com| date=17 March 2008 }}</ref> She was consulting producer for "The Quilted Conscience," a PBS documentary on South Sudanese girls learning to quilt with Nebraskan women.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nuer scholarship|url=http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2013/07/from-the-desk-of-terese-svoboda.htm|website=nebraskapress.typepad.com}}</ref>


==Selected awards==
==Selected awards==
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*1973 Hannah del Vecchio Award in Playwriting
She has won a Guggenheim and the Bobst Prize for fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH and a PEN/Columbia grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry award for the short story, two Appleman awards, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is also a three time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has been awarded Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Bogliasco, Yaddo, MacDowell, Hermitage and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall in 2005.
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*1974 PEN/Columbia Translation Fellow
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*1978 National Endowment for the Humanities grant in translation
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*2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction
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*1983 Creative Artist Public Service fellow
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*2013 Money for Women Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
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*1985 Emily Dickinson Award, Poetry Society of America
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*2008 Best of Japan 2008 in the Japan Times for ''Black Glasses Like Clark Kent''
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*1987 Cecil Hemley Award, Poetry Society of America
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*2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize
*2005 Appleman Foundation for WET libretto
*1988 Jerome Foundation Fellow
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*2003 Pushcart Prize for an essay
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*1998, 1993 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship
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*1998 Walter E. Dakin Fellow in fiction, Sewanee Writing Conference
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*1994 Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
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*1992 Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance, co-director/writer of an ITVS-produced video selected by The Getty as one of the best two experimental biographies of the decade<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret Sanger|url=http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c147.shtml|website=www.wmm.com}}</ref>
*1990 Iowa Poetry Prize
*1990 Iowa Poetry Prize
*1990 Appleman Foundation grant for video
*1990 Appleman Foundation grant for video
*1990 New York State Council for the Arts grant for video
*1990 New York State Council for the Arts grant for video
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*1992 Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance, co-director/writer of an ITVS-produced video selected by The Getty as one of the best two experimental biographies of the decade<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret Sanger|url=http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c147.shtml|website=www.wmm.com}}</ref>
*1988 Jerome Foundation Fellow
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*1994 Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
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*1985 Emily Dickinson Award, Poetry Society of America
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*1998, 1993 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship
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*1987 Cecil Hemley Award, Poetry Society of America
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*1998 Walter E. Dakin Fellow in fiction, Sewanee Writing Conference
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*1983 Creative Artist Public Service fellow
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*2003 Pushcart Prize for an essay
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*1978 National Endowment for the Humanities grant in translation
*2005 Appleman Foundation for WET libretto
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*1974 PEN/Columbia Translation Fellow
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*2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize
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*1973 Hannah del Vecchio Award in Playwriting
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*2008 Best of Japan 2008 in the Japan Times for ''Black Glasses Like Clark Kent''
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*2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction
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*2013 Money for Women Barbara Deming Memorial Fund


==Video==
==Video==
The highlights of Svoboda's video work include exhibition in Exchange and Evolution as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time exhibition at RedCat,<ref>{{cite web|title=RedCat|url=http://www.redcat.org/event/proto-ethnographic-works|website=www.redcat.org}}</ref> Ars Electronica, PBS, MoMA, WNYC, L.A.C.E., Lifestyle TV, Berlin Videofest, Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts, AFI, Long Beach Museum of Art, New American Makers, Athens Film Festival, Ohio Film Festival, American Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival (Director's Choice), L.A. Freewaves, Pacific Film Archives, Columbus Film Festival, and Worldwide Video Festival. She also co-curated "Between Word and Image" for the Museum of Modern Art and Poets House, an exhibition that traveled to Banff and the Northwest Film Center.
The highlights of Svoboda's video work include exhibition in Exchange and Evolution as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time exhibition at RedCat,<ref>{{cite web|title=RedCat|url=http://www.redcat.org/event/proto-ethnographic-works|website=www.redcat.org}}</ref> Ars Electronica, PBS, MoMA, WNYC, L.A.C.E., Lifestyle TV, Berlin Videofest, Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts, AFI, Long Beach Museum of Art, New American Makers, Athens Film Festival, Ohio Film Festival, American Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival (Director's Choice), L.A. Freewaves, Pacific Film Archives, Columbus Film Festival, and Worldwide Video Festival. She also co-curated "Between Word and Image" for the Museum of Modern Art and Poets House, an exhibition that traveled to Banff and the Northwest Film Center.

==Personal life==
Svoboda is married to the high-tech inventor Stephen Medaris Bull, and she is the mother of three children.


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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=== Poetry ===
=== Poetry ===
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*''All Aberration'' ISBN-10: 0-8203-0807-2 / ISBN-13: 978-0-87745-272-0 / eISBN: 978-1-58729-235-4
*''All Aberration'' {{ISBN|0-8203-0807-2}} / {{ISBN|978-0-87745-272-0}} / e{{ISBN|978-1-58729-235-4}}
*''Laughing Africa'' Iowa Prize in Poetry, ISBN-10: 978-0-87745-272-0 / ISBN-13: 9780877452805 / eISBN: 978-1-58729-235-4
*''Laughing Africa'' Iowa Prize in Poetry, {{ISBN|978-0-87745-272-0}} / {{ISBN|9780877452805}} / e{{ISBN|978-1-58729-235-4}}
*''Mere Mortals'' ISBN-10: 0-8203-3424-3 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3424-0
*''Mere Mortals'' {{ISBN|0-8203-3424-3}} / {{ISBN|978-0-8203-3424-0}}
*''Treason'' ISBN-10: 0970817762 / ISBN-13: 978-0970817761
*''Treason'' {{ISBN|0970817762}} / {{ISBN|978-0970817761}}
*''Weapons Grade'' ISBN-10: 1557289069 / ISBN-13 : 978-1557289063
*''Weapons Grade'' {{ISBN|1557289069}} / {{ISBN|978-1557289063}}
*''Dogs Are Not Cats'' (chapbook) ISBN-13: 978-0-9885490-3-6
*''Dogs Are Not Cats'' (chapbook) {{ISBN|978-0-9885490-3-6}}
*''When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected and New Poems'' ISBN-10: 1934695459 / ISBN-13: 978-1934695456
*''When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected and New Poems'' {{ISBN|1934695459}} / {{ISBN|978-1934695456}}
*''Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship'' ISBN: 9781911335184
*''Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship'' {{ISBN|9781911335184}}
*''Theatrix: Poetry Plays'' {{ISBN|1934695696}}
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=== Novels ===
=== Novels ===
*''Cannibal'' (novel) Bobst Prize and the [[Great Lakes Colleges Association]] First Fiction Prize, ISBN-10: 0814780121
*''Cannibal'' (novel) Bobst Prize and the [[Great Lakes Colleges Association]] First Fiction Prize, {{ISBN|0814780121}}
*''A Drink Called Paradise'' (novel) ISBN-10: 1582430012 / ISBN-13: 9781582430010
*''A Drink Called Paradise'' (novel) {{ISBN|1582430012}} / {{ISBN|9781582430010}}
*''Tin God'' (novel) John Gardner Fiction book Award Finalist, ISBN: 9780803245754
*''Tin God'' (novel) John Gardner Fiction book Award Finalist, {{ISBN|9780803245754}}
*''Pirate Talk or Mermalade'' (novel) ISBN-13: 978-0-982631-80-5
*''Pirate Talk or Mermalade'' (novel) {{ISBN|978-0-982631-80-5}}
*''Bohemian Girl'' (novel) Booklist Ten Best Westerns 2012, ISBN-13: 9780803226821
*''Bohemian Girl'' (novel) Booklist Ten Best Westerns 2012, {{ISBN|9780803226821}}


=== Short fiction ===
=== Short fiction ===
;Collections
;Collections
*''Trailer Girl and Other Stories'' ISBN-10: 1582430853 / ISBN-13: 9781582430850
*''Trailer Girl and Other Stories'' {{ISBN|1582430853}} / {{ISBN|9781582430850}}
*''Great American Desert'' (stories) ISBN-13: 978-0814255209
*''Great American Desert'' (stories) {{ISBN|978-0814255209}}
*{{cite book |last=Svoboda |first=Terese |title=The Long Swim |date=2024 |publisher=Juniper Prize for Fiction |isbn=978-1-62534-807-4}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leichter |first=Hilary |date=2024-03-08 |title=Bad Parents, Beware. These Harpy Sisters Are Coming for You. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/books/review/terese-svoboda-long-swim-roxy-coco.html |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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=== Non-fiction ===
=== Non-fiction ===
;Biography
;Biography
*''Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet'' ISBN: 9781943156573
*''Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet'' {{ISBN|9781943156573}}
;Memoirs
;Memoirs
*''Black Glasses Like Clark Kent'' [[Graywolf Press]] Nonfiction Price , Publisher : [[Graywolf Press]]; Illustrated edition (Jan. 22 2008) ISBN-10: 1555974902 / ISBN-13: 9781555974909
*''Black Glasses Like Clark Kent'' [[Graywolf Press]] Nonfiction Price, Publisher : [[Graywolf Press]]; Illustrated edition (Jan. 22 2008) {{ISBN|1555974902}} / {{ISBN|9781555974909}}
;Translations
;Translations
*''Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth'' ([[Nuer_people|Nuer]]) ISBN-13: 978-0912678634
*''Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth'' ([[Nuer people|Nuer]]) {{ISBN|978-0912678634}}


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:English-language poets]]
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[[Category:The New Yorker people]]
[[Category:Poets from Nebraska]]
[[Category:Poets from Nebraska]]

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Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic and videomaker.

Career

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Svoboda is the author of nine collections of poetry, six novels, three collections of short fiction, a memoir and a book of translations from the Nuer.

She graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts.[1] She was Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawaii.[2] and McGee Visiting professor of writing at Davidson College.[3] She taught at Columbia University School of the Arts.[4]

The opera Wet, for which she wrote the libretto, premiered at RedCat at L.A. Disney Hall in 2005.[5] Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide.[6][7] In writing about her work, reviewers have noted her frequent use of humor to address dire subjects,[8] her interest in fabulism,[9] and her lyrical use of language, especially as a poet writing prose.[10][11]

An ardent unconventional feminist, she often writes about women in the Midwest in a way that has been termed “exotic, sophisticated, and heartbreaking.”[12] Her travels for the Smithsonian's Anthropology Film Archive to the South Pacific and the South Sudan provide additional settings. Postwar Japan is the location for her memoir about executions of U.S. servicemen by U.S. authorities.[13]

Her work has appeared in AGNI,[14] Granta,[15] The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry,[16] The New York Times, Narrative,[17] Slate, Paris Review.[18] The New York Post described her memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent as "astounding"; The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as "magisterial".

South Sudan

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After translating the songs of the Nuer people of the South Sudan on a PEN/Columbia Fellowship, she founded a scholarship for Nuer high school students in Nebraska.[19] She was consulting producer for "The Quilted Conscience," a PBS documentary on South Sudanese girls learning to quilt with Nebraskan women.[20]

Selected awards

[edit]
  • 1973 Hannah del Vecchio Award in Playwriting
  • 1974 PEN/Columbia Translation Fellow
  • 1978 National Endowment for the Humanities grant in translation
  • 1983 Creative Artist Public Service fellow
  • 1985 Emily Dickinson Award, Poetry Society of America
  • 1987 Cecil Hemley Award, Poetry Society of America
  • 1988 Jerome Foundation Fellow
  • 1990 Iowa Poetry Prize
  • 1990 Appleman Foundation grant for video
  • 1990 New York State Council for the Arts grant for video
  • 1992 Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance, co-director/writer of an ITVS-produced video selected by The Getty as one of the best two experimental biographies of the decade[21]
  • 1994 Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
  • 1998, 1993 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship
  • 1998 Walter E. Dakin Fellow in fiction, Sewanee Writing Conference
  • 2003 Pushcart Prize for an essay
  • 2005 Appleman Foundation for WET libretto
  • 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize
  • 2008 Best of Japan 2008 in the Japan Times for Black Glasses Like Clark Kent
  • 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction
  • 2013 Money for Women Barbara Deming Memorial Fund

Video

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The highlights of Svoboda's video work include exhibition in Exchange and Evolution as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time exhibition at RedCat,[22] Ars Electronica, PBS, MoMA, WNYC, L.A.C.E., Lifestyle TV, Berlin Videofest, Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts, AFI, Long Beach Museum of Art, New American Makers, Athens Film Festival, Ohio Film Festival, American Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival (Director's Choice), L.A. Freewaves, Pacific Film Archives, Columbus Film Festival, and Worldwide Video Festival. She also co-curated "Between Word and Image" for the Museum of Modern Art and Poets House, an exhibition that traveled to Banff and the Northwest Film Center.

Bibliography

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Poetry

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Collections
  • All Aberration ISBN 0-8203-0807-2 / ISBN 978-0-87745-272-0 / eISBN 978-1-58729-235-4
  • Laughing Africa Iowa Prize in Poetry, ISBN 978-0-87745-272-0 / ISBN 9780877452805 / eISBN 978-1-58729-235-4
  • Mere Mortals ISBN 0-8203-3424-3 / ISBN 978-0-8203-3424-0
  • Treason ISBN 0970817762 / ISBN 978-0970817761
  • Weapons Grade ISBN 1557289069 / ISBN 978-1557289063
  • Dogs Are Not Cats (chapbook) ISBN 978-0-9885490-3-6
  • When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected and New Poems ISBN 1934695459 / ISBN 978-1934695456
  • Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship ISBN 9781911335184
  • Theatrix: Poetry Plays ISBN 1934695696

Novels

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Short fiction

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Collections

Non-fiction

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Biography
Memoirs
Translations

References

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  1. ^ ""Dog on Fire" by Terese Svoboda '78 Coming Soon from Flyover Fiction | School of the Arts". arts.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  2. ^ "Visiting Writers and Distinguished Writers in Residence – Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa". Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  3. ^ "Program: English - Davidson College - Acalog ACMS™". catalog.davidson.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  4. ^ "Terese Svoboda | Superstition Review". superstitionreview.asu.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  5. ^ "Anne Lebaron and Terese Svoboda: Wet". REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater). redcat.org. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  6. ^ "Terese Svoboda". Experimental Television Center. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
  7. ^ "Terese Svoboda".
  8. ^ "Pirate Talk or Mermalade".
  9. ^ "Tin God".
  10. ^ "A Drink Called Paradise".
  11. ^ "Weapons Grade".
  12. ^ "An interview with Ladette Randolph". www.thenervousbreakdown.com. October 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  13. ^ "Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan by Terese Svoboda". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  14. ^ "Terese Svoboda". AGNI Online. 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  15. ^ "Terese Svoboda". Granta. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  16. ^ Foundation, Poetry (2024-05-01). "Terese Svoboda". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  17. ^ Svoboda, Terese (2008-06-06). "Terese Svoboda | Narrative Magazine". www.narrativemagazine.com. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  18. ^ "Terese Svoboda". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  19. ^ "Nuer scholarship". www.theindependent.com. 17 March 2008.
  20. ^ "Nuer scholarship". nebraskapress.typepad.com.
  21. ^ "Margaret Sanger". www.wmm.com.
  22. ^ "RedCat". www.redcat.org.
  23. ^ Leichter, Hilary (2024-03-08). "Bad Parents, Beware. These Harpy Sisters Are Coming for You". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
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