Writers for
H.A.L.D. 2011
[Housing Authors & Literature, Denmark]
After the deadline of April 1 2011 we received almost 30 applications for the H.A.L.D. 2011 summer residency program at Hald Manor House.
Amongst the applicants from countries like Belgium, England, Estonia, Germany, Ghana, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Thailand, Uganda, USA and Zimbabwe these four writers were chosen to attend the H.A.L.D. 2011:
(Photo by Elżbieta Lempp)
Adam Zdrodowski (born 1979) is a Polish poet and translator who has two collections of poetry to his name: Przygody, etc. [Adventures, etc.] (2005) and Jesień Zuzanny [Susanna’s Autumn] (2007). As a translator he has translated texts by Gertrude Stein, Charles Bernstein and William S. Burroughs into Polish. Adam Zdrodowski is living in Warsaw, Poland.
Brian Chikwava (born 1972) is a Zimbabwe writer who besides having short stories published in magazines and broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 had a novel Harare North, published in 2009. Brian Chikwava lives in London UK and is presently tutoring creative writing at City University London.
Chika Unigwe (born 1974) is a Belgium writer of Nigerian origin who is an author of both fiction, poetry, articles and educational material. Her second novel, On Black Sisters’ Street (2009) is published in German, Dutch, Italian and Hungarian. Chika Unigwe is living in Turnhout, Belgium. www.chikaunigwe.com
John Haskell (born 1960) is an American author of three books of fiction; I am Not Jackson Pollock (2003), American Purgatorio (2005), which has found its way into both German and Polish and Out of My Skin (2009). John Haskell is living in New York, USA http://johnhaskell.home.mindspring.com
