Pembroke JRF Awarded Prestigious Writing Fellowship at Yaddo

Congratulations to Pembroke JRF Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalaycı who has been awarded a prestigious writing fellowship at Yaddo, one of the oldest and most established artist colonies in the US. Meryem was awarded a Yaddo residency fellowship to work on a graphic novel inspired by her British Academy postdoctoral project on the life of the Armenian Genocide survivor Alexander Cosac.

The Yaddo website shares: “Collectively, Yaddo artists have won 74 Pulitzer Prizes, 29 MacArthur Fellowships, 68 National Book Awards, and a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel for Literature in 1976). Notable Yaddo artists through the turn of the millennium include James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Philip Guston, Patricia Highsmith, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Martin Puryear, Katherine Anne Porter, Amy Sillman, Clyfford Still, and David Foster Wallace. More recent guests include Terry Adkins, Laurie Anderson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sheri Fink, and Matthew Weiner.”

Meryem will be staying at Yaddo in August and September and will also be traveling in the US to promote her forthcoming book Reading Silences: Essays on Women, Memory and War in Twentieth Century Turkey.