Russell Banks

Russell Banks is fiction writer and poet. He is president of the International Parliament of Writers. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. His main works include the novels The New World, Success Stories, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction.  The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997.  Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and 1998, respectively.  Banks has also written a variety of short stories, some of which appear in the collection The Angel on the Roof. He has also contributed poems, stories and essays to The Boston Globe Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Harper’s, and many other publications.  He is the winner of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and an Ingram Merrill Award.   

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