Dinaw Mengestu with Penn Szittya
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Wednesday 16 November 2011 7:00 pm |
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Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 West San Francisco Street |
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. In 1980 he immigrated to the United States with his mother… Read full bio.
Penn Szittya
Penn Szittya has taught literature at Boston University, Emory, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and Georgetown University, … Read full bio.
About this Event
Dinaw Mengestu read from his work, then was followed by a conversation with Penn Szittya, former Chair of the Georgetown University Department of English when Mr. Mengestu began work on his acclaimed novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (is) “a great African novel, a great Washington novel, and a great American novel.” — New York Times Book Review
As a writer, it’s a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that’s pretty much what being a writer is— being there, watching and internalizing.
— Dinaw Mengestu
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