Where Do Novels Come From? About Writing and Creativity with Lauren Groff and Lorrie Moore

U.S. Embassy Literature Series 2023
Tuesday, April 18, 20:00 - English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center
Fidicinstr. 40, 10965 Berlin
Lauren Groff and Lorrie Moore in Conversation with Gregor Dotzauer.
Lauren Groff is the ELLEN MARIA GORRISSEN FELLOW - CLASS OF SPRING 2023 at the American
Academy in Berlin. She is the author of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel MATRIX
(September 2021). Her work has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, and France’s Grand
Prix de l’Héroïne, was a three-time finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and twice for
the Kirkus Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize,
and the Los Angeles Times Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American
Novelists. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Lorrie Moore is currently the MARY ELLEN VON DER HEYDEN FELLOW IN FICTION - CLASS OF SPRING
2023 at the American Academy in Berlin. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English
and Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of two short story collections, three
novels and a children’s novel. Her new novel I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (June 2023) has been
listed as one of the most anticipated books of 2023 by Time Magazine. Lorrie Moore has won numerous
awards such as the O. Henry Award, The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Rea Award for the
Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. She has been a finalist for the Orange Prize, The
PEN Faulkner Award, The National Book Critics' Circle Award, The Story Prize, and the Frank O'Connor
International Short Story Award. See What Can Be Done (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) is a collection of her
reviews and essays that previously appeared in publications such as The New York Review of Books, The
New Yorker, The Yale Review, and The Atlantic. A recipient of an NEA, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a
Lannan Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, she was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.
Gregor Dotzauer is lead editor for nonfiction at Berlin’s Tagesspiegel. He studied German, philosophy,
and musicology in Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main before beginning to write about literature and film
for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 1999, he joined
Berlin’s Tagesspiegel as literary editor, where he also regularly writes on topics related to jazz or the
humanities. In 2009, he received the Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism. In October 2022, Matthes &
Seitz published his literary essay Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen - Über Musik, Moment und Erinnerung.
In cooperation with the American Academy Berlin and the English Theatre Berlin | International
Performing Arts Center

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Lorrie Moore is the author of FOUR, not two, story collections (Self Help; Like Life; Birds of America; Bark), as well as FOUR, not three, novels (Anagrams; Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?; A Gate at the Stairs; I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home).