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Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Co-Authors Article with Dr. Daniel Marchalik in The Lancet
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna recently co-authored an article with Dr. Daniel Marchalik, Associate Director of the Medical Humanities Initiative, that focuses on the intersection between…
The Hoya Reports on the 2024 Lannan Literary Festival
On March 22, 2024, The Hoya reported on the 2024 Lannan Literary Festival that took place from March 19 – 21. Read Lannan Literary Festival Highlights Experiences of Writers from All Backgrounds by…
Carolyn Forché’s Newest Poem Published in The Atlantic
On March 24th, Lannan Center Director of Readings and Talks and Distinguished University Professor Carolyn Forché had a poem published in The Atlantic. Read “Night Shift in the Home for…
“When they come for the poets” by Rabih Alameddine Published in The Washington Post
Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine recently wrote an op-ed piece about the killing of Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer and the arrests of poets through the ages. Read “When they come for the…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Writes “What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies” in LitHub
On January 29, 2024, LitHub published the prologue to the new 20th anniversary edition of The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest by Aminatta Forna. Read “What Fiction Can Reveal…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin Has Three Book Reviews Published in The Atlantic This Year
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin reviewed three books this year in The Atlantic: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, and Blackouts by Justin Torres.…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Toper Folarin Introduces Edwidge Danticat at the PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony
On December 1, 2023, Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin introduced Edwidge Danticat at the PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony in which Danticat was honored. Watch the ceremony…
Rabih Alameddine recieves 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic) has been selected as the winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.…
Carolyn Forché inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lannan Center Director of Readings and Talks and Distinguished University Professor Carolyn Forché has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin reviews Teju Cole’s novel “Tremor”
Read “A Multitude of Selves: Teju Cole and the forking paths of autofiction” by Tope Folarin in The Nation.…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Launches New Podcast with Beyond Borders Scotland
Aminatta Forna, the director of the Lannan Center, recently launched the Beyond Borders Scotland Podcast, co-hosted by Mark Muller Stuart and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera. …
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin reviews “The Life and Times of Hannah Craft” by Gregg Hecimovich
Read “The years-long search for an enslaved author’s true identity” by Tope Folarin in The Washington Post. …
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Writes Lead Review for Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Latest Novel “Afterlives”
Read “Prelude to Empire” by Aminatta Forna.…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Gives Opening Keynote Alongside Wole Soyinka at the NYU Accra ‘Reclaiming the Narrative’ Symposium
On October 19th, 2023, Lannan Center director Aminatta Forna gave the opening keynote speech at the ‘Reclaiming the Narrative’ symposium at NYU Accra in Accra, Ghana.…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Writes a Review of Scholastique Mukasonga’s “Kibogo”
Read “Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga review – crisis in colonial Rwanda” by Aminatta Forna. “Kamanzi, our sub-chief, came to take away our children.” So begins a trail of misfortune that…
