[Yale-readings] Book Signing event at Lulu's

[Nancy Kuhl]

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.
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.

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, 
<http://royahakakian.com/journey/index.html>Journey from the Land of No, 
was recently published by Crown.

For more information about Roya visit her website: 
http://www.royahakakian.com/; a press package about the author and her work 
is attached to this message:

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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