Video: Rohinton Mistry’s Neustadt Prize Acceptance Speech
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This video was recorded September 28, 2012, during the Neustadt Festival Banquet in Norman, Oklahoma, where Indian-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry accepted the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and gave the following acceptance speech to an audience of over three hundred guests.
Editorial Note: For more on 2012 Neustadt Prize laureate Rohinton Mistry, read the tribute by Samrat Upadhyay, “Rohinton Mistry's Omniscient Gaze,” as well as the summary of the 2012 Neustadt Festival accompanied by an exciting highlights reel of the festival week.
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Editor's Note, January 2013
by Daniel Simon
Alfred Hitchcock, Creator and Creation Fictionalizing the “Master of Suspense”
2012 Neustadt Prize Laureate Rohinton Mistry
SPEECH “The Road from There to Here,” Rohinton Mistry
ESSAY
Rohinton Mistry’s Omniscient Gaze
by Samrat Upadhyay
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Video: Rohinton Mistry’s Neustadt Prize Acceptance Speech
SUMMARY
About the 2012 Neustadt Festival
by Kevin Pickard
ESSAY “Lend Me Your Light,” Rohinton Mistry and the Art of Storytelling, Beena Kamlani
ESSAY Painting the Deeply Personal on Vast Political Landscapes: Rohinton Mistry’s India, Sudha Bhuchar
5 Poetry Trails
INTRO “Finding Poetry Under the Open Sky,” Pattiann Rogers
“The William Stafford Path Lake Oswego, Oregon,” Kim Stafford
“Poetry Trail in Greenway Meadows Princeton, New Jersey,” Scott McVay
“The Milwaukee County Zoo Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” Pattiann Rogers
“Herman Hill Park Water Center Wichita, Kansas,” Albert Goldbarth
“Oaken Transformations Brighton, Michigan,” Susan Blackwell Ramsey
PHOTO GALLERY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Poetry Trails: 28 Photos
Essays
“The Weather of Who We Are An Intimate Essay on the Weather, the Self, and Australianness,” Mark Tredinnick
“The Immediacy of Influence,” Adam Z. Levy
“A New Refuge for Haitian Writers,” Deji Olukotun
Poetry
Pavane; or, A Mouthful of Bright Blue Prayers
by Mark Tredinnick
Two Poems
by Lauren Camp
Fiction
Interviews
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