“Equally important, Kent wrote about a fundamental question of our time: Is your family your blood relatives or those who choose to care and love for you? And how do you build a family and a community? “Kent always wrote with such authenticity, compassion, honesty and lyricism about life in small-town America - in his case, set on the Eastern Plains.
“It’s hard to overestimate Kent Haruf’s influence on my life and on the Theatre Company,” said DCPA Producing Artistic Director Kent Thompson, who has directed all three of Haruf’s novels for the stage. READ THE COMPLETE FINAL INTERVIEW WITH KENT HARUF HERE There has been perhaps no other novelist so keenly in touch with Colorado’s roots.
And Haruf’s final novel, Our Souls at Night, is scheduled to be published on June 2. Benediction, the third chapter adapted by playwright Eric Schmiedl, will open on Jan. Over the past decade, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has adapted Haruf’s entire Plainsong Trilogy for the live theatre. “But if it is, it’s a bigger corner than I thought it was.” “Right now, I don’t feel like death is right around the corner,” Haruf said Monday in his final media interview, with Denver CenterStage.
Haruf, 71, died Sunday morning of lung disease at his home in Salida, about 150 miles southwest of Denver. That was his way of allowing his imagination to help him create quiet, moving stories of the rural townspeople of Holt that millions of readers found to be universally identifiable. And it was Haruf’s style to always type with his eyes closed. Haruf, perhaps Colorado’s most celebrated novelist, wrote Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction by tapping away at an old-fashioned manual typewriter in his backyard writing shed. Kent Haruf conjured an entire fictional town on the windswept Colorado Plains – with his eyes wide shut.
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