birth_date: 1950-01-01 00:00:00
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name: Randall Silvis
about: Randall Silvis is the internationally acclaimed author of over a dozen novels, one storycollection, and one book of narrative nonfiction. Also a prize-winning playwright, aproduced screenwriter, and a prolific essayist, he has been published and produced invirtually every field and genre of creative writing. His numerous essays, articles, poems and short stories have appeared in the Discovery Channel magazines, The Writer, Prism International, Short Story International, Manoa, and numerous other online and print magazines. His work has been translated into 10 languages. Silvis’s many literary awards include two writing fellowships from the NationalEndowment for the Arts, the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, a Fulbright Senior Schola Randall Silvis is the internationally acclaimed author of over a dozen novels, one storycollection, and one book of narrative nonfiction. Also a prize-winning playwright, aproduced screenwriter, and a prolific essayist, he has been published and produced invirtually every field and genre of creative writing. His numerous essays, articles, poems and short stories have appeared in the Discovery Channel magazines, The Writer, Prism International, Short Story International, Manoa, and numerous other online and print magazines. His work has been translated into 10 languages. Silvis’s many literary awards include two writing fellowships from the NationalEndowment for the Arts, the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, six fellowships for his fiction, drama, and screenwriting from the Pennsylvania Council On the Arts, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree awarded for “distinguished literary achievement.” ...more