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Meet Roya Hakakian, an Iranian born, CT-based writer at a book signing
event at Lulu's European Coffee Shop (49 Cottage Street) in New Haven on
Sept 30, from 7-9 pm.<br>
Roya is the author of two highly acclaimed collections of poetry, the
first of which, For the Sake of Water, received honorable mention in the
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World and was nominated as the
poetry book of the year by Iran News in 1993. Her essays have appeared in
numerous broadcasts and publications, including Connecticut NPR. <br>
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Most recently, Roya was the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and the
2003 Dewitt / Wallace Reader's Digest Fellowship in writing. She is a
founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, and a term
member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her memoir of growing up a
Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran,
<<a href="http://royahakakian.com/journey/index.html" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://royahakakian.com/journey/index.</a><a href="http://royahakakian.com/journey/index.html" eudora="autourl">html</a></u></font>>Journey
from the Land of No, was recently published by Crown.<br>
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For more information about Roya visit her website:
<a href="http://www.royahakakian.com/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.royahakakian.com/</a></u></font>;
a press package about the author and her work is attached to this
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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>
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