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May
5
2015

Maaza Mengiste, Award-winning author to give lecture: WHEN FICTION SPEAKS TO HISTORY

When: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT

Where: University Hall, room 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public

Contact: Stacy Oliver   (847) 467-4099

Group: Center for the Writing Arts

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Novelist Maaza Mengiste will discuss her experiences as a writer working from historical research. She will talk about what it means to create fiction from history and the negotiations along the way.

Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction writing can be found in the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio 4, Granta, and Lettre International, among other places. Her second novel, The Shadow King, is forthcoming.

Q&A and book-signing to follow
This event is FREE and open to the public

Maaza has won fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Prague Summer Program, and the Emily Harvey Foundation. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a finalist for a Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, an NAACP Image Award, and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award in Adult Debut. Her second novel, The Shadow King, is forthcoming.

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