Laird Hunt

Laird Hunt (April 3, 1968) is an American writer, translator and academic.

Life

Hunt grew up in Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, and London before moving to his grandmother's farm in rural Indiana, where he attended Clinton Central High School.  He earned a B.A. from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He also studied French literature at the Sorbonne. Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations while writing his first novel. He was a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver.  Hunt lives with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, in Providence, Rhode Island and works as a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

Writing career

Hunt is the author of seven novels and a collection of short work. His works intersect several genres, including experimental literature, exploratory fiction, literary noir, speculative fiction and difficult fiction and include elements ranging from the bizarre, the tragic, and the comic.  His influences include Georges Perec, W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and the French Modernists. Hunt has also translated several novels from the French including Oliver Rohe's Vacant Lot (2010), Stuart Merrill's Paul Verlaine (2010). He has contributed to many literary publications, including McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, The Believer, Fence, and Conjunctions and is currently editor of the Denver Quarterly.

Awards and honors

 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for fiction for Kind One
 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist for Kind One
 2015 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine for Neverhome

Film adaptations

In 2014 it was announced that Irish director Lenny Abrahamson would film an adaptation of Hunt's Civil War novel Neverhome.

Works
Dear Home. Small Press Distribution. 1999. 

 
 

 
 

 Contributed to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing.  &NOW Books, Lake Forest College Press. 2013.  
 The Evening Road. New York: Little Brown and Company. 2017. 
In the House in the Dark of the Woods. Little, Brown and Company. 2018.

References

External links
 Laird Hunt at Coffee House Press
 Interview at Bookslut

Category:Living people
Category:1968 births
Category:Writers from Boulder, Colorado
Category:Indiana University alumni
Category:American male novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
Category:21st-century American male writers