Archive: Announcements

• Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna To Give Keynote Speech for the Writers Unlimited Festival in The Hague

  On January 18th, 2024, Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna will give the keynote speech at the Writer Unlimited Festival in The Hague, Netherlands. The festival, themed "Human Voices," aims to unit

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• 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 befalls

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Rabih Alameddine receives 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.

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• 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.

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• A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah

  September 14, 2022
  
  6:00PM ET

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• Virtual Event: An Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi Oksanen

  Tuesday, September 21 at 5PM ET.
  

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• Special Event: Tope Folarin Reading

  November 30, 2021
  
  7:00PM ET

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• Student and Alumni News

  Graduate Program Acceptances, Awards and Honors, and Publications
  
  

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