Reading features Kafka Prize winner

Hackett

oyce Hackett, recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize at the University for her debut novel Disturbance of the Inner Ear, will present a reading and book signing at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 28, in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library.

Critically acclaimed by numerous publications, Disturbance of the Inner Ear tells the story of Isabel Masurovsky, a former prodigy cellist and the daughter of a world-renowned pianist who survived the concentration camp at Theresienstadt. Hackett interviewed more than 40 survivors of Theresienstadt and their families while writing her book.

The novel was named to the best book lists of Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and the National Book Critics Circle. New York Newsday notes, "Joyce Hackett employs a lush and perfectly pitched lyricism to tell her tale. . . . Her talent for the apt metaphor is virtuosic."

Hackett's work has appeared in a variety of publications in the United States and abroad, including Harpers, London Magazine, The Paris Review, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Review, Salon, The Independent, and the Berlin daily Der Tagespiegel. She also has taught at Marymount Manhattan College and New York University, was a lecturer at Freie Universitaet Berlin, and was a freelance editor for Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and other presses.

The Kafka Prize, which carries a $5,000 award, is presented by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English. It was established in 1976 in memory of Janet Kafka, a young editor killed in an automobile accident.

Hackett's reading is free and open to the public. For more information, call x5-8318.

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