31st Annual Literary Arts Festival with Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,
and
is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar
Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the
National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book
Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer
Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African
Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999,
2000), 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 US-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 at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
City Tech's literary festival will also feature readings and
performances by students and faculty.
For more information, contact Festival Coordinator Professor
Caroline Hellman at 718.260.4975 or
chellman@citytech.cuny.edu.
Date:
April 26, 2012
Time:
5:30 PM
College:
New York City College of Technology
Address:
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn
Building:
Klitgord
Room:
Auditorium
Phone:
718.260.4975
Website:
Admission:
Free