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Professor Evan Zimroth
English Department
Evan Zimroth is a renowned author and poet. She is teaching English at present at Queens College and is involved with the Jewish Studies Program. Her current class (Fall 99) The Literature of the Bible will involve close literary reading of selected Biblical texts.
Among her latest publications are:
Books:
Collusion (memoir), Harper Collins, January 1999. Publication also in Holland, England, Germany, Italy, Japan. Book-of-the-Month Club choice for Cosmopolitan, January 1999 Gangsters (novel), Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996. Won National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, 1996. Giselle Considers Her Future (poetry), Carnegie Mellon University Press Classic Contemporary, 1996. Reprinted from Ohio State University Press, 1978. Dead, Dinner, or Naked (poetry),
Tri Quarterly/Northwestern University Press, 1994.
Articles:
"Else Lasker-Schuler: The Black Swan of Israel," Tikkun, Vol. 5, No. 1, January-February, 1990. With translations.
"Agnon and Ecstasy," Tikkun, Vol. 6, No. 1, January-February, 1991.
Awards:
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, 1996, for Gangsters.
Jewish Book Club selection, for Gangsters.
Fellowship Award in Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts, 1985-1986.
Finalist, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, The Poetry Society of America, 1983.
PSC-BHE Research Award, for translation, 1980.
Membership in PEN, and The Genesis Seminar (Jewish Theological Seminary), Columbia University Seminar in Israeli & Jewish Studies
