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Ben Lerner
Writer | Class of 2015
Transcending conventional distinctions of genre and style in works that convey the texture of our contemporary moment and explore the relevance of art and the artist in modern culture.


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Title
Writer
Affiliation
City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Location
New York, New York
Age
36 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, Poetry
Website
Brooklyn College: Ben Lerner
Published September 29, 2015
ABOUT BEN'S WORK
Ben Lerner is a novelist, poet, and critic exploring the relevance of art and the artist to modern culture with humor, compassion, and intelligence. Lerner began his writing career as a poet and essayist focused on contemporary literature and art. His three volumes of verse capture the often elliptical drift of thought, appearing spontaneous even as they layer linguistic and conceptual complexity.

Bringing to the novel a poet’s relentless engagement with language and a critic’s analytical incisiveness, Lerner makes seamless shifts between fiction and nonfiction, prose and lyric verse, memoir and cultural criticism, conveying the way in which politics, art, and economics intertwine with everyday experience. Both of his novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) and 10:04 (2014), hold up a mirror to the writer’s consciousness. While Atocha is a comedic portrait of a young artist coming of age, Lerner’s concerns in 10:04 are larger and more pressing, reflecting his narrator’s (Ben) growing maturity in relation to others and keen sense of the social structures that constrain him. Ben struggles to create meaningful fiction in a culture addicted to artificial stimulation, a theme interspersed with acute, at times comic, reminders of the neuroses of American society.

At the same time, Lerner depicts a complex friendship between a man and a woman. Ben agrees to have a child with his longtime friend Alex, and their experience with assisted reproduction (and Ben’s imagined future conversations with their child) offer a new vision for how people can relate to one other—a glimmer of hope in a world beset by inequality, weather catastrophes, and political upheaval. Lerner is transcending conventional distinctions of genre and style in a body of work that constitutes an extended meditation on how to capture our contemporary moment.

BIOGRAPHY
Ben Lerner received a B.A. (2001) and an M.F.A. (2003) from Brown University. Since 2010, he has been affiliated with Brooklyn College of the City College of New York, where he is currently a professor in the Department of English. His additional publications include the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), Angle of Yaw (2006), and Mean Free Path (2010); an artist’s book, Blossom (with Thomas Demand, 2015); the forthcoming monograph The Hatred of Poetry; and essays on art and literature in such publications as Art in America, Frieze, Harper’s, and the London Review of Books, among others.



本-勒纳
作家 | 2015级
在作品中超越了体裁和风格的传统区别，传达了我们当代的质感，并探索了艺术和艺术家在现代文化中的相关性。


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标题
作家
所属机构
纽约市立大学，布鲁克林学院
工作地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为36岁
重点领域
小说和非小说写作, 诗歌
网站
布鲁克林学院。本-勒纳
发表于2015年9月29日
关于本的工作
本-勒纳是一位小说家、诗人和评论家，他以幽默、同情心和智慧探索艺术和艺术家与现代文化的关系。Lerner开始了他的写作生涯，是一位专注于当代文学和艺术的诗人和散文家。他的三卷诗集捕捉到了思想中经常出现的省略号，即使在语言和概念的复杂性上也显得很自发。

勒纳将诗人对语言的不懈追求和评论家的分析能力带到小说中，在小说和非小说、散文和抒情诗、回忆录和文化批评之间进行了无缝转换，传达了政治、艺术和经济与日常经验交织的方式。他的两部小说《离开阿托卡车站》（2011年）和《10:04》（2014年）都为作家的意识举了一面镜子。阿托卡》是一个年轻艺术家成长的喜剧肖像，而勒纳在《10:04》中关注的问题更大、更紧迫，反映了他的叙述者（本）在与他人的关系上越来越成熟，对制约他的社会结构有敏锐的感觉。在一个沉迷于人工刺激的文化中，本努力创造有意义的小说，这个主题穿插着尖锐的、有时是滑稽的、对美国社会的神经质的提醒。

同时，勒纳描绘了一个男人和一个女人之间的复杂友谊。本同意与他的老朋友亚历克斯生一个孩子，他们的辅助生殖经验（以及本想象中的未来与他们的孩子的对话）为人们如何相互联系提供了一个新的愿景--在一个被不平等、天气灾难和政治动荡所困扰的世界中的一线希望。勒纳正在超越传统的体裁和风格的区别，他的作品构成了对如何捕捉我们当代时刻的延伸冥想。

个人简历
本-勒纳在布朗大学获得学士（2001年）和硕士学位（2003年）。自2010年以来，他一直隶属于纽约城市学院的布鲁克林学院，目前是该学院英语系的一名教授。他的其他出版物包括诗集《利希滕贝格数字》（2004年）、《偏航角度》（2006年）和《平均自由路径》（2010年）；一本艺术家的书《开花》（与托马斯-达德姆合作，2015年）；即将出版的专著《诗歌的仇恨》；以及在《美国艺术》、《Frieze》、《哈珀》和《伦敦书评》等出版物上发表的关于艺术和文学的文章。