Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek (born 1942) is an American writer.

Personal life

Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959. He writes about these neighborhoods and the ethnic shift that occurred when they went from being populated with Poles and Czechs toward the primarily Hispanic areas of the city that still remain to this day. Dybek's father immigrated to the U.S. from Poland and took the job as a foreman as an International Harvester; his mother worked as a truck dispatcher.

Dybek earned an MFA from the University of Iowa and has an MA in literature from Loyola University Chicago. He currently teaches at Northwestern University after more than 30 years teaching at Western Michigan University, where he remains an Adjunct Professor of English and a member of the permanent faculty of the renowned Prague Summer Program.

Dybek has two brothers, Tom a therapist and actor living in New York City and David, who is the inspiration for some of his stories.

Literary works

Critics have stated that Dybek is a master of the short story. Dybek’s fiction departs from the Chicago tradition of realistic writing. It combines realism with the surreal and lyrical mysteries of memory, emotions and imagination. His tales mix the tangibility of everyday life with the fantastic. Much of his work is set within the world of ethnic customs and the Roman Catholic rituals of his childhood. Many of the things that he experienced throughout his childhood have been adapted into his works. Dybek's work often explores the nature of neighborhoods. Drawing on his own background in Chicago, Dybek explores issues of community identity, immigration, and displacement.

His two collections of poems are "Brass Knuckles" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979) and "Streets in Their Own Ink" (Farrar, 2004). His fiction includes "Childhood and Other Neighborhoods", "The Coast of Chicago", and most recently "I Sailed With Magellan", a novel-in-stories. His work is frequently anthologized and appears regularly in magazines such as "Harper's", "The New Yorker", "Atlantic Monthly", "Poetry", "Tin House", "Ploughshares", and "Triquarterly".

In 2004, his collection, "The Coast of Chicago", was the “One Book, One Chicago” selection—“One Book” is an ambitious program in which the selected book is read in libraries and high schools throughout the city. Also in 2004, "I Sailed With Magellan" was awarded the prize in adult fiction from the Society of Midland Authors. The book was selected as a "New York Times" Notable Book and was chosen by the American Library Association as one of the 26 Most Notable Books of 2005. One of the stories, “Breasts,” appears in the 2004 "Best American Short Stories".

Awards

Dybek's work has won numerous awards, among them a Lannan Prize, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim, and numerous O. Henry Prizes and inclusions in "The Best American Short Stories" and "The Best American Poetry". On September 25, 2007 Dybek was announced as the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the "Genius Award" that gives individuals selected for "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits" a $100,000 grant annually for five years. One day later, he was awarded the 2007 Rea Award for the Short Story, a $30,000 annual prize given for "originality and influence on the genre."

External links

* [http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/oboc/coast/dybek.html Bio by Chicago Public Library]
* [http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/stuart-dybek/ Bio by Lannan Foundation]
* [http://www.wmich.edu/english/fac/stuartdybek.html Bio by Western Michigan University]
* [http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/dybek.htm Bio by Northwestern University]
* [http://www.powells.com/prizes/penmalamud.html List of PEN/Malamud winners]
* [http://smokelong.com/interview/174.asp Interview] in "SmokeLong Quarterly", June 15, 2005
* [http://smokelong.com/interview/370.asp Interview] in "SmokeLong Quarterly", September 15, 2007
* [http://smokelong.com/flash/2310.asp Short Story: Brisket] in "SmokeLong Quarterly", June 15, 2005
* [http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/07/09/070709fi_fiction_dybek?printable=true Short Story: If I Vanished] in "The New Yorker", July 9, 2007
* [http://smokelong.com/flash/6419.asp Short Story: Mole Man] in "SmokeLong Quarterly", September 15, 2007


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