Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

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Core faculty has included fiction writers David Gates, Amy Hempel, Jill McCorkle, Sheila Kohler, Martha Cooley, Askold Melnyczuk, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Alice Mattison ; nonfiction writers Sven Birkerts, Susan Cheever, Phillip Lopate, Tom Bissell, and George Scialabba ; and poets April Bernard, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Amy Gerstler, Mark Wunderlich, and Ed Ochester.

Following Rector's death in August 2007, Sven Birkerts took over as acting director of the Writing Seminars.

Sven Birkerts ( born September 21, 1951 ) is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry.

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The critic Sven Birkerts argued that the unfinished state of The Curse of Caste ( Collins died before completing it ) and its poor literary quality should disqualify it as the first building block of African-American literature.

* Writing Well with Sven Birkerts ( 1994 )

His son is noted literary critic Sven Birkerts.

* St. Peter's Lutheran Church, by Gunnar Birkerts

The Kemper Museum ’ s 23, 200-square-foot concrete, steel and glass building, constructed from 1992 to 1994 at a cost of $ 6. 6 million, was designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts.

Birkerts was born in Pontiac, Michigan.

Birkerts is the Director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the editor of AGNI, the literary journal.

His father is noted architect Gunnar Birkerts.

Through apprenticeship with Soleri and with Gunnar Birkerts, he obtained registration as an architect and opened his practice in 1974.

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, designed by Gunnar Birkerts, 1992-1994.

Gunnar Birkerts (, born January 17, 1925 in Riga, Latvia ) is a Latvian-American architect who, for most of his career, was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan.

Gunnar Birkerts was raised in Latvia but fled ahead of the advancing Russian army toward the end of the Second World War.

Birkerts came to the United States and worked initially for Perkins and Will, then for Eero Saarinen, and finally for Minoru Yamasaki before opening his own office in the Detroit suburbs.

Birkerts initially practiced in the partnership Birkerts and Staub ; after that partnership broke up the firm became Gunnar Birkerts and Associates.

Birkerts joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1959 and taught until 1990.

The ACSA ( Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ) honored Birkerts with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award in 1989-90.

Gunnar Birkerts was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1970, and a Fellow of the Latvian Architect Association in 1971.

Birkerts now maintains an architectural office in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

Although he is sometimes regarded as among the first and most influential architects of Nordic modernism, a closer examination of the historical facts reveals that Aalto ( while a pioneer in Finland ) closely followed and had personal contacts with other pioneers in Sweden, in particular Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius.

Through Sven Markelius, Aalto became a member of the Congres Internationaux d ' Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ), attending the second congress in Frankfurt in 1929 and the fourth congress in Athens in 1933, where he established a close friendship with László Moholy-Nagy, Sigfried Giedion and Philip Morton Shand.

* 1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish soldier and author ( d. 2012 )

" Sven Ove Hansson has disputed anthroposophy's claim to a scientific basis, stating that its ideas are not empirically derived and neither reproducible nor testable.

* Walter, Sven.

* Epiphenomenalism-an article by Sven Walter in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Other notable directors working in German currently include Sönke Wortmann, Caroline Link ( winner of an Academy Award ), Romuald Karmakar, Harun Farocki, Hans-Christian Schmid, Andreas Dresen, Dennis Gansel, Ulrich Köhler, Ulrich Seidl, and Sebastian Schipper, as well as comedy directors Michael Herbig and Sven Unterwaldt.

* 1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer ( d. 1952 )

* 1935 – Sven Inge, Swedish artist ( d. 2008 )

One of the few references cited by Watson and Crick when they published their model of DNA was to a published article that included Sven Furberg's DNA model that had the bases on the inside.

The label has been responsible for many success stories in the electronic world including Oliver Lieb, Eternal Basement, Hardfloor, Sven Väth and Koxbox.

The company was founded by Sven Väth in the early 1990s as a sublabel of Eye Q Records with the divisions Harthouse Frankfurt, Harthouse UK and Harthouse America.

In the beginning of 1997 the future of the label was uncertain, sales were drooping in the wake of rising commercial trance labels, and Sven Vaeth had left the label in January, causing further confusion.

* Bergenholtz, Henning & Tarp, Sven ( eds.

* Grahn, Sven.

Other early remixes were of Lloyd Cole, Dave Howard Singers, Bang Bang Machine, Stump, Higher Intelligence Agency, Sven Vath and Rising High Collective.

Stein was influenced by Sven Hedin's 1898 work, Through Asia.

Stein, as well as other contemporary explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband and Nikolai Przhevalsky, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the so-called Great Game.

* 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer ( b. 1865 )

The memorial is part of the National Park Service and was designed by Oklahoma City architects Hans and Torrey Butzer and Sven Berg.

* 2012 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author ( b. 1917 )

His awareness of the temporal dimension of social life would lead to the formation of time geography through the works of Torsten Hägerstrand and Sven Godlund.

* Beckert, Sven, and Julia B. Rosenbaum, eds.