Discipline: Literature

John Batki

Discipline: Literature
Region: UNITED STATES and HUNGARY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977
John Batki is writer, poet and translator born in Hungary, who moved to the United States in 1957, where he now lives and works. Batki has had his work featured in The New Yorker, taught at Harvard University, and has received several accolades for his work, including the O. Henry Award (1972), a Fulbright Fellowship (1993), a fellowship from the Colegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study (1995-1996), and a Translation Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (2003).

Studios

Banks

John Batki worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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