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Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer

… Conference Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … a year-long celebration of Cather's 1918 novel as a title selected by the National Endowment for the Arts' 2024-2025 … young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime …
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Ántonia Scholarship

… Pavelka, prototype for Ántonia Shimerda in Cather's novel  My Ántonia  and Mary Rosicky in Cather's short story … South High School 2022: Chloe Berger, Wilson Hill Academy 2023: Campbell Collins, Collins Homeschool 2024: Eleanor …
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My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel

… and a novel that is part of today’s literary canon,  My Ántonia’s  worldwide appeal is demonstrated by its … 15-19: See Tim Youd ’s (American, b. 1967) Willa Cather’s My Ántonia , on view in Hawks Pavilion Gallery H8, and plan …
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'My Ántonia' Holiday Tour

… the many seasonal winter and Christmas details described in My Ántonia —at the very same places that inspired locations … place in the world—from Otto’s cowboy trunk..."   — My Ántonia Book soon as tours are likely to sell-out!  This … as part of our National Endowment for the Arts Big Read of My Ántonia programs and initiatives. LEARN MORE …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… by the difficulties and the beauties of the world they must contend with. It is also true, though, that we read … remains a revelation.”  — Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley About My Ántonia When critic Randolph Bourne heralded  My … Adolph Hitler’s bathtub at the close of World War II. When Mildred Bennett began work on the Willa Cather Pioneer …
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The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read: My Ántonia

… Events Friday, Oct 4, 2024 | All day CT the National Willa Cather Center 425 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … citizen and student pricing is available for the tour. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles … Blind d’Arnault. It utilizes archival imagery and artist biography to inspire patrons to grapple with larger …
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My Ántonia Selected for NEA’s Big Read

… Image My Ántonia Selected for NEA’s Big Read Introduces “Where We … for the Arts (NEA) announced in October that Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected for their … forging deeper connections between people and place,” said Amy Stolls, the NEA’s literary arts director.  As part of the …
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My Ántonia

… Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically … virtues Cather most admired in her country. We first meet Antonia Shimerda as the young daughter of a Bohemian …
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My Ántonia at 100: The Ongoing Story

… Image Special Events Friday, Jun 1, 2018 | 2 - 3pm National Willa Cather Center 413 North … Cloud, Nebraska, both during Cather’s life and today. In  My Ántonia  when Jim Burden is relocated to Black Hawk …
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My Ántonia by Illusion Theater

… 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States My Ántonia , Willa Cather’s seminal novel of immigration on …
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