Laila Lalami
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
If All of Rochester Reads the Same Book
Friday, March 28, 2008
Noon
Monroe A & B of the Warshof Conference Center
Free and Open to the Public.
Tickets are Required and available at <"http://www.monroecctickets.com"> or the Brighton Campus Service Desk.
Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. She earned her B.A. in English from Universite Mohammed in Rabat, her M.A. from University College, London, and her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts grant and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her debut book of fiction, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was published in the fall of 2005 and has since been translated into five languages. She was short listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2006. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside.
Sponsored by the English/Philosophy Department and Writers & Books.
Jodi Oriel
Campus Center
03/19/2008 |