Kseniya Melnik in Conversation with Lisa Page: Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner
The Freer and Sackler Museums of Asian Art are finally reopening, and it’s likely to be an exciting celebration. There will be food, music, and of course interactive and informational presentations. One such activity is The Art of Illuminations where you can learn about the tradition of decorating the pages of Islamic books. Artists Lubna Zahid and Sughra Hussainy…
GW’s Fourth Annual World Literature Residency is now underway, with Nokuthula Mazibuko of South Africa in residence at George Washington University for a month, thanks to collaboration between Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the South African Embassy. Writer and director of documentary films, including The Spirit of No Surrender, Lady Was a Mshoza…
Feed your mind and body. See the English Department in action. Meet famous novelists. Learn about the future of literature. Eat something sweet. Mingle with students, faculty, alumni. LITERATURE IN A GLOBAL AGE: PANEL DISCUSSION & RECEPTION Featuring the British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi “Literature in a Global Age” is about the past…
To say Jose Dalisay has had a productive career is an understatement. The Philippines-born writer has published over 20 works in fiction and nonfiction since 1983 and also has an extensive background as a dramatist, columnist and film writer. Born in the Philippine island province Romblon in 1954, Dalisay spent his formative years in Manila,…
The most recent Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Junot Diaz, is reading from his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao this Wednesday (September 10th) at Politics and Prose at 7 PM (though it’s advisable to be early). This is a great opportunity to meet one of the most celebrated young authors in the…
If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…