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Book by DePauw prof on longlist for international award
A DePauw University professor is a longlist nominee for the International Dublin Literary Award.
Assistant professor of English Robert Stevens, who writes under the name Robert Yune, was honored for his debut novel, “Eighty Days of Sunlight.”
The international literary award is presented each year for a novel written in English or translated into English.
Sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland, the award aims to promote excellence in world literature.
The winner receives a 100,000-pound prize, one of the richest literary prizes in the world.
Other 2017 nominees include Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, Lauren Groff, Michel Houllebecq, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie.
Yune’s fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review and other publications. In 2008, he received a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and was a 2012 finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize.