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<font face="Arial, Helvetica">Shirley Hazzard reads from her most recent
novel <i>The Great Fire, </i>nominated for the 2003 National Book Award,
Thursday, November 6 at 4 pm at the Beinecke Library. Free and open to
the public.<br>
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From the Yale Bulletin:<br>
Award-winning novelist Shirley Hazzard will visit the campus on Thursday,
Nov. 6. Hazzard will read from her works at 4 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. The event is free and open to
the public. Hazzard's books have been set around the world, from New York
to Italy to Japan, and often start in the middle of the 20th century. A
native of Australia, she delivered ABC's Boyer Lectures in 1984. In 1985,
they were published in book form as "Coming of Age in
Australia." In 1980, Hazzard was honored with the National Book
Critics Circle Award for "The Transit of Venus." Hazzard's
novels include "The Evening of the Holiday" (1966) and
"The Bay of Noon" (1970). She is also the author of two
collections of short fiction, "Cliffs of Fall and Other
Stories" (1963) and "People in Glass Houses" (1967). Her
nonfiction works include "Countenance of Truth," a short work
about the United Nations published in 1990, and a short memoir about her
friend Graham Greene, "Greene on Capri," published in 2000. Her
most recent book, "The Great Fire," was published this month.
Regarding her work, Hazzard has been quoted in an interview as saying,
"I love novels. I love fiction. ... It's all about imagination. More
and more our world is closing down on imagination. Instead, we have a lot
of explanations."<br>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
Fax: 203.432.4047</html>