Award-winning author David Treuer was the speaker for the 2007 Possibilities Heginbotham Literary Lecture. The lecture hosted by the Department of English and Modern Languages was held in the Buetow Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
Treuers third novel, The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006), was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time Out Chicago, and Minneapolis Star Tribune. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship to Canada, a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the Penn West prize in 1999. An Ojibwe Indian, Treuer divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota and Minneapolis.
The son of Robert Treuer, an Austrian Jew and holocaust survivor, and Margaret Seelye Treuer, a tribal court judge, David grew up on Leech Lake Reservation. After graduating from high school he attended Princeton University where he wrote two senior theses-one in anthropology and one in creative writing-and where he worked with Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, and Joanna Scott. Treuer graduated in 1992 and published his first novel, Little, in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999. His novels have been translated into Norwegian, Finnish, French, and Greek.
The Heginbotham Literary Lecture Series is made possible by private donors who established an endowment to honor Dr. Eleanor Heginbotham and her distinguished record of teaching and scholarship at CSP as well as her many contributions to the literary community in the Twin Cities. Heginbotham is a professor emeritus of English and Modern Languages, an award-winning Emily Dickinson expert and a Senior Fulbright Scholar who served at Concordia for 10 years until her retirement in 2004.
This video was filmed and produced by Zachary Schuster and CTP Productions at Concordia University-St. Paul. For more info, visit: csp.edu/ctp
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