Homegoing: A Celebration of the Life of Randall Kenan”
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1media/image94.png2021-08-26T13:07:49-07:002003 - Randall Garrett Kenan (1963-2020) Joins the Faculty3Kenan graduates from UNC in 1985 with a major in English and begins his career on the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., editorial staff. He served as a visiting professor at UNC in 1995 and joined the faculty full time in 2003 as the first Black Creative Writing professor. Kenan taught courses in fiction and nonfiction and published award-winning novels, nonfiction, and collections.plain2021-09-02T08:32:07-07:00Kenan graduates from UNC in 1985 with a major in English and begins his career on the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., editorial staff. He served as a visiting professor at UNC in 1995 and joined the faculty full time in 2003 as the first Black Creative Writing professor. Kenan has taught courses in fiction and nonfiction and published award-winning novels, nonfiction, and collections. Best known for his collection of short stories, Let the Dead Bury the Dead (1992),Kenan won a Lambda Literary Award in 1992 for this work and served on the faculty of Lambda’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. In January 2021 The Lambda Literary Awards announced the creation of the Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction in his honor. Among numerous other honors, Kenan received in 2005 a North Carolina Award for Literature, a lifetime achievement award and the state’s highest civilian honor. In 2018 he was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
After his death in 2020, the Department of English and Comparative Literature established the Randall Kenan Memorial Fund and memorial page in honor of his legacy and his passion for bringing fellow writers to Carolina.
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“Carolina Mourns the Passing of ‘Master Storyteller’ Randall Kenan” in “Articles.” Website. Aug. 31, 2020. College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://college.unc.edu/2020/08/randall-kenan/
