Archive:Announcements

• Professor Aminatta Forna – Honorary Doctor of Letters 

  On July 1, Professor Aminatta Forna was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Aberdeen, where her father - the subject of her 2001 investigative memoir The Devil that Danced on the

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• Book Launch for Amy Kenny’s My Disability Is Divine

  October 27, 2026 at 7:00PM ET Location: Copley Formal Lounge Join us for the launch of Dr. Amy Kenny’s latest book, My Disability Is Divine: A Joyful Witness That Defies Ableist Nonsense. Ac

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• Book Launch for Carolyn Forché’s Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems

  September 22, 2026 at 7:00PM ET Location: Copley Formal Lounge Join us for the launch of Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Carolyn Forché’s Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026

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• Readings & Talks Featuring Claudia Rankine

  November 17, 2026 at 7:00PM ET Location: Copley Formal Lounge Reading and conversation with MacArthur Genius, NY Times best-selling poet, and author of TRIAGE. Accommodation requests related

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• Readings & Talks Featuring Chigozie Obioma

  October 13, 2026 at 7:00PM ET Location: Copley Formal Lounge Join us for Reading and conversation with Booker Prize finalist, novelist, and author of The Road to the Country. Accommodation r

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• Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine Receives 2026 Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize

  Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine recently received the Lambda Literary's 2026 Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

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• Ron Charles’ Blog Post on An Evening with Julia Alvarez

  American book critic Ron Charles reflects on an Evening with Julia Alvarez at the Lannan Literary Festival on Tuesday, March 24th. "'I was trained before women’s studies,' she explained to the Ge

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• Letter From Minnesota: On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege – Poem by Carolyn Forché

  On January 29th, 2026, Carolyn Forché published a poem, titled “On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege” on the Literacy Hub. “On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege” will be published i

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• “The Writer Fueled by Life’s Randomness” – The Atlantic Muse on Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine’s Unconventional Writing Methods

  On December 24th, 2025, Lily Meyer from The Atlantic sat with Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine as he reflected on his life, writing, and recent National Book Award win. Alameddine's three-decad

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• Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine Starring on the Iowa Public Radio

  On December 26th, 2025, Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine sat with Host Indira Lakshmanan from the Iowa Public Radio to do a brief reading of his award-winning novel, The True True Story of Raja

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