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Laird Hunt
Laird Hunt (born April 3, 1968) is a Singapore-born American writer, translator, and academic.
Laird Hunt was born on April 3, 1968, in Singapore. His father was an American banker who moved along with his family in various places such as Amsterdam, London, and elsewhere. After his parents divorced, Hunt was sent to live with his grandmother in Indiana, where he went to the Clinton Central High School.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University Bloomington in 1989 and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in 1996. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne in 1996.
He was for a time a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver. He currently teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program.
Hunt is the author of eight novels and a collection of short works, including the 2021 National Book Award finalist Zorrie. He has translated several novels from the French, including Oliver Rohe's Vacant Lot (2010) and Stuart Merrill's Paul Verlaine (2010).
His works is said to 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.
While working on his first novel, Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations.
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Laird Hunt
Laird Hunt (born April 3, 1968) is a Singapore-born American writer, translator, and academic.
Laird Hunt was born on April 3, 1968, in Singapore. His father was an American banker who moved along with his family in various places such as Amsterdam, London, and elsewhere. After his parents divorced, Hunt was sent to live with his grandmother in Indiana, where he went to the Clinton Central High School.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University Bloomington in 1989 and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in 1996. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne in 1996.
He was for a time a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver. He currently teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program.
Hunt is the author of eight novels and a collection of short works, including the 2021 National Book Award finalist Zorrie. He has translated several novels from the French, including Oliver Rohe's Vacant Lot (2010) and Stuart Merrill's Paul Verlaine (2010).
His works is said to 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.
While working on his first novel, Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations.