Daniel Gumbiner is the author of The Boatbuilder (2018, McSweeney’s) and Fire in the Canyon (2023, Astra House). He was a finalist for the California Book Awards and was also named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. He is also the Editor of The Believer, based in San Francisco, CA
I was a Picador Guest Professor in Literature in Leipzig (2010/2011). The position was very fulfilling and my creative writing students were dynamic, imaginative, and full of heart. Leipzig is wondrous.
Nathalie Handal in an interview with thebartleby.com
Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and writer. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. In the winter semester 2010/11, Handal held the Picador Professorship at the University of Leipzig.
In 2006, Leipzig University, in co-operation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Veranstaltungsforum of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, initiated the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature at the University of Leipzig aiming at conveying and critically reflecting on Anglo-American Literature. Public events are also offered in addition to the authors’ teaching activities as Picador Guest Professors. This takes place in collaboration with the creative arts and culture community of Leipzig.
Many of the questions we discussed were ones we had never thought about before for example the question of what our own “fundamental truth” is.
Thea, Student
