Archive: Announcements

• Rabih Alameddine receives Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award

  Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine has received The Publishing Triangle Awards' Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award. Alameddine was praised for his “powerful imagination on the page and

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• Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin Publishes “The City Was All I Had” in Places Journal

  In January 2025, Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin published an essay, “The City Was All I Had,” in Places Journal. Read “The City Was All I Had.”

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• Student Job Opening: Lannan Symposium Assistant

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• “WINDOWS INTO GAZA”: A Conversation on Culture and Journalism with Fadi Abushammalah and Jen Marlowe

  April 3rd
  
  6:30PM ET

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• Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Reviews André Aciman’s “Roman Year” in New York Times

  On October 21, 2024, Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna's review of André Aciman's new memoir, "Roman Year," was published in the New York Times. Read "An Exile Revisits the Squalor and Grandeur o

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• Writing Climate

  Save the Dates: Our 2025 Lannan Symposium is on March 25-27th
  
  

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• Patricia Guzman Reviews “The Farewell Light” by Nidia Hernández in World Literature Today

  Lannan Center Program Manager Patricia Guzman reviewed Nidia Hernández's The Farewell Light (Arrowsmith Press, 2024) in the September 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

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• Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Published in Condé Nast Traveler

  On August 13, 2024, Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna's piece on a trip to explore the vast Ennedi Plateau was published in Condé Nast Traveler. Read "Chad's Ancient Geology and Epic Grandeur Mak

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• Rabih Alameddine’s “Comforting Myths” Reviewed in Publishers Weekly

  On August 8, 2024, Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine's latest book Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art was reviewed in Publishers Weekly.

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• Rabih Alameddine’s Newest Book “Comforting Myths” Forthcoming October 2024

  Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine's newest book, Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art will be published October 2024. "In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Fa

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