Lowell Lecture
Fiction Days presents Edwidge Danticat
Date & Time
Sept. 29, 2015 at 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Location
Boston College - Murray Function Room
140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Edwidge Danticat
Presenting Organization
Topics
Contact
James Smith (smithbt@bc.edu, 617-552-2203)
Edwidge Danticat, who was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1969, is widely considered to be one of the most talented young writers in the United States, celebrated in particular for her impassioned, meditative, and poetically intense prose style. She became a finalist for the National Book Award at the age of twenty-six for Krik? Krak!, and has received the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize and fiction awards from The Carribean Writer, Seventeen, and Essence magazines. Her works include Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, and Brother I’m Dying. Her Lowell lecture will be part of a three-day residency at Boston College.