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Chris Abani, a Nigerian writer and professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, will read from his fiction and poetry on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel as part of the English department's fall 2008 reading series. It is free and open to the public.
As a teenager, Abani was imprisoned by the Nigerian regime for his writings. He is the author of 10 volumes of fiction and poetry and has received numerous awards including the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Hurstom/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN Hemingway Book prize. His most recent prose work, Song For Night (Akashic, 2007) received the 2008 PEN Beyond the Margins Award.
The reading is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and hosted by the English Department.
As a teenager, Abani was imprisoned by the Nigerian regime for his writings. He is the author of 10 volumes of fiction and poetry and has received numerous awards including the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Hurstom/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN Hemingway Book prize. His most recent prose work, Song For Night (Akashic, 2007) received the 2008 PEN Beyond the Margins Award.
The reading is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and hosted by the English Department.
