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Professor Yvette Christiansë
Nominated for 2008 International IMPAC 
Dublin Literary Award
for Unconfessed
  Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force.

They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. A woman moved from master to master, farm to farm, and—driven by the horrors of slavery to commit an unspeakable crime—from prison to prison. A woman fit for hanging . . . condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island.  More...
Poet-In-Residence
Janet Kaplan
Wins Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
for Dreamlife of a Philanthropist
  Janet Kaplan, poet in residence at Fordham, has received the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame for her collection of prose poems and prose sonnets, Dreamlife of a Philanthropist. The award includes cash prizes and advances and publication by University of Notre Dame Press. 
 
2008
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          Annual GEA Conference Spring 2008
Innovation and Evolution
Innovation and Evolution
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  POETS OUT LOUD
READING:
Kundiman Poets
7:00 pm LC
ABOUT FACE
Women Write About What They See...
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      WRITING WEDNESDAY
Owen King
Writing Short Stories
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November
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READING:
Celebration for
Willis Barnstone
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      WRITING WEDNESDAY
Laura Shapiro
Writing
About Food
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      WRITING WEDNESDAY
James Braly
Storytelling and
Autobiography
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        Woolf & The City
19th Annual Woolf Conference
Lincoln Center
 Woolf & The City
19th Annual Woolf Conference
Lincoln Center
 Woolf & The City
19th Annual Woolf Conference
Lincoln Center
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  For more information regarding any of the events listed on this calendar, 
please contact Martine Stern.

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