{"id":2750,"date":"2019-11-13T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:00:13","slug":"omer-friedlander-receives-vsc-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/11\/13\/omer-friedlander-receives-vsc-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Omer Friedlander receives VSC fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/11\/13\/omer-friedlander-receives-vsc-fellowship\/10858621_10152923010358216_5177906483002211334_n-1-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2019\/11\/10858621_10152923010358216_5177906483002211334_n-1-1-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"10858621_10152923010358216_5177906483002211334_n-1 (1)\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/11\/10858621_10152923010358216_5177906483002211334_n-1-1-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/11\/10858621_10152923010358216_5177906483002211334_n-1-1.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so happy to announce that Omer Friedlander (Fiction 2019) has received a fully-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/vermontstudiocenter.org\/\">Vermont Studio Center<\/a> fellowship!\u00a0 He will be in residence at VSC for four weeks in May 2020.\u00a0 Before that, Omer\u00a0is traveling to India on a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/2019-fellows\/\">Global Fellowship<\/a>.\u00a0 He is currently reading<em> The White Book\u00a0<\/em>by Han Kang and\u00a0<em>We the Animals\u00a0<\/em>by Justin Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Omer!<\/p>\n<p>Omer Friedlander grew up in Tel-Aviv. He has a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and an MFA from Boston University where he was the Saul Bellow Fellow in Fiction. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary magazines in the US, UK, Canada, France, Israel and Singapore, including <em>The Common, The Ilanot Review, The Mays Anthology, Paris Lit Up<\/em>, and others. His writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Work-Study Scholarship, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops, and Wellspring House Residency. He was awarded first place in the Shmuel Traum Literary Translation Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re so happy to announce that Omer Friedlander (Fiction 2019) has received a fully-funded Vermont Studio Center fellowship!\u00a0 He will be in residence at VSC for four weeks in May 2020.\u00a0 Before that, Omer\u00a0is traveling to India on a Global Fellowship.\u00a0 He is currently reading The White Book\u00a0by Han Kang and\u00a0We the Animals\u00a0by Justin Torres. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}