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Ledig House the internationally acclaimed writers residence authors features: Owen Sheers, Paul LaFarge and others read and discuss their recent work.

Owen’s debut prose work, The Dust Diaries (Faber 2004), a non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe, won the Welsh Book of the Year 2005. In 2004 he was Writer in Residence at The Wordsworth Trust and was selected as one of the Poetry Book Society’s 20 Next Generation Poets. Owen’s second collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill (Seren, 2005) won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award. Owen’s first novel, Resistance (UK Faber, 2007/ US Nan Talese/Doubleday 2008) will be translated into nine languages. Owen is currently a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.

Paul La Farge is the author of two novels, The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999) and Haussaann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001), and a book of short fiction, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney’s Books, 2005). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, and the Bard Fiction Prize in 2005. He is currently working on a project about flight in America.

Mikolaj Lozinski (Poland, Fiction) Mikolaj has a degree in Sociology from Sorbonne (Paris 5). He has published short stories in literary magazines and held a number of photographic exhibitions. He has earned his living by doing odd jobs, including work as a painter and assistant-cum-interpreter to a blind psychotherapist. Reisefieber is his first novel.

Gazmend Kapllani (Greece, Fiction) Gazmend was born in Albania and immigrated to Greece in 1991. He studied philosophy and has a PhD in Political Science and History. As a journalist he has worked as a columnist for the Greek daily Tea Nea. His fiction has been published by Portobello in the UK.

Rebecca Morrison (UK, Fiction/Translation) Originally from Scotland, Rebecca read modern languages (French and German) at Oxford and moved to Berlin after graduation, where she worked as a translator and literary agent.  Her translations include work by Bernhard Schlink, Ernst Weiss, Ilija Trojanow and the biography of Fearless Nadia, an early Bollywood star.  Since 2003 Rebecca has been based in London as a translator and as editor of ‘New Books in German,’ a bi-annual magazine on contemporary German literature.

Tishani Doshi (India, Fiction) Tishani was born in Madras, India, to a Welsh mother and a Gujarathi father. She was educated at Queens College, North Carolina, and at Johns Hopkins University. Her longest standing job was at Harpers & Queen magazine in London for 10 months. Since then she’s moved back to India where she works and performs with a contemporary dance group all over the world and moonlights as a writer. Her first book of poems, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Prize for the best first collection in 2006, and she also won the All-India Poetry Competition in 2006. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Fiction Curator: Suzanne Dottino, Contact: Suzanne@KGBBAR.COM

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,