[Yale-readings] January 25: Junot Diaz

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Junot Diaz

Reading from his work

Monday, January 25, 2010, 7 p.m.

Linsly-Chittenden 102, 63 High Street

Sponsored by the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund, the Departments of English and African American Studies, and Ezra Stiles College

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.

Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and is author of Drown and of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among other awards. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, in many issues of Best American Short Stories, in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009.

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 The Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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.

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Associate Editor
The Yale Review
P. O. Box 208243
New Haven, CT 06520-8243
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