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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b>Junot
Diaz<br>
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</b>Reading from his work<br>
<br>
<b>Monday, January 25, 2010, 7 p.m.<br>
<br>
</b>Linsly-Chittenden 102, 63 High Street<br>
<br>
Sponsored by the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund, the
Departments of English and African American Studies, and Ezra Stiles College<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The next John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer coming
to Yale is novelist Junot Díaz, appearing for a public reading on Monday,
January 25 at 7 p.m. in Linsly-Chittenden 102, 63 High Street. His visit is
co-sponsored by the Departments of English and African American Studies and
Ezra Stiles College.<br>
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Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and is author of <i>Drown
</i>and of <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i>, winner of the National
Book Critics Circle Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among other
awards. His fiction has appeared in <i>The New Yorker</i>, in many issues of <i>Best
American Short Stories</i>, in <i>Pushcart Prize XXII</i> and in <i>The O’Henry
Prize Stories 2009</i>.<br>
<br>
He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award,
the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at <i>The Boston Review</i>
and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor of writing and humanistic
studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<br>
<br>
The John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer series was established to
enrich the experience of student writers in Yale College. It is supported by a
gift from Richard and Sheila Schlesinger in honor of their son, who was
dedicated to the pursuit of creative writing. Each year several distinguished
writers come to campus to give a public reading and to confer with student
writers in a variety of settings, formal and informal.<br>
<br>
Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
<a href="mailto:susan.bianconi@yale.edu">susan.bianconi@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The
Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American
Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements
about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement,
including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to
the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
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