Jennifer Clement
Jennifer Clement is the author of the memoir Widow Basquiat that
made
the "Booksellers' Choice" list in the United Kingdom and
a novel A True
Story Based on Lies, which was a finalist in the Orange Prize for
Fiction in the United Kingdom. Whoopie Goldberg bought the film rights
to this novel. She is also the author of several books of poetry:
The
Next Stranger (with an introduction by W.S. Merwin), Newton’s
Sailor,
and Lady of the Broom. Clement’s work has been translated into
8
languages. In 2008 Shearsman Books (UK) will publish her New and
Selected Poems and Canongate Books will publish her novel The Poison
That Fascinates.
Jennifer Clement was awarded Mexico's prestigious "Sistema Nacional
de
Creadores" grant and was honoured with the UK's Canongate Prize
for her
story A Salamander-Child. In 2001 she was also the recipient of a
US-Mexico Fund for Culture (FONCA, Fundacion Cultural Bancomer, the
Rockefeller Foundation) grant for the San Miguel Poetry Week, which
she
founded in 1997 with her sister, Barbara Sibley. In 2007 she was given
a MacDowell Fellowship.
Clement's work has appeared in numerous anthologies including The
Best
of The American Voice and Akzente, The London Times, The Herald, Poetry
London, The Nation, The American Poetry Review and The Independent
Magazine, among others, have published her stories, poems and essays.
Recently the composer Jan Gilbert has created an “Eleven Song
Setting”
of Clement’s The Lady of the Broom for Soprano Flute/alto flute,
viola
and violoncello.
Jennifer Clement lives in Mexico City, Mexico
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