Jennifer Clement

Jennifer Clement, Uluslararası PEN Başkanıdır ve 1921'den, yani örgütün kuruluşundan beri seçilen ilk kadındır.

Jennifer Clement New York Üniversitesi'nde İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı ve Antropoloji eğitimi görmüştür. Paris'te Fransız Dili Edebiyatı okumuştur. Kurgu bölümünde MFA eğitimi vardır.

Clement dört romanın yazarıdır: Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates and Gun Love. Prayers for the Stolen, New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, yani editörün seçimi olmuştur. Gran Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE 2015 ödülüne layık görülmüştür. Sara Curry İnsan Hakları ödülünu almıştır. Roman, Uluslararası çapta pek çok ülkede "çok satanlar" rafında yer almıştır. Dört adet şiir kitabı vardır. Clement'in kitapları 30 dilde yayımlanmıştır.
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Jennifer Clement is the President of PEN International and the first woman to be elected since the organization was founded in 1921.

Jennifer Clement studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and also studied French literature in Paris, France. She has an MFA in fiction from the Stonecoast MFA program at USM.

Clement is the author four novels: Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates and Gun Love. Prayers for the Stolen was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Book, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, winner of the Gran Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE 2015, an NEA Fellowship and the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award. The novel appeared internationally on many “Best Books of the Year” lists, including The Irish Times. Clement was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel Gun Love. She has also published of four books of poetry including The Next Stranger (with an introduction by W.S. Merwin). Clement’s books have been translated into 30 languages.