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Amy Waldman
Berlin Prize Fellow - Class of Spring 2010
Writer and Journalist
Biography
Amy Waldman's first novel, The Submission, will be published this August by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic and the Boston Review and been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010. She was previously a reporter for The New York Times, including three years as co-chief of the South Asia bureau, a national correspondent for the Atlantic, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives in Brooklyn. Her website is
www.thesubmissionnovel.com.
American Academy Project
The Submission
Lecture Summary
The Submission: A Novel-in-Progress
Journalist Amy Waldman's first novel is about an anonymous competition to design a memorial to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The competition was open to everyone, but the incredible design that won over the jury over came with an unexpected catch: the winner was Muslim. This premise opens The Submission, a penetrating and close exploration of the potential--and actual--issues surrounding public space, commemoration, and the politics of religious identity post- 9/11. »