A Conversation with Novelist Wayne Karlin and Author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
November 09, 2021
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Prince Frederick Campus (Room 119) or Online via Zoom
Neal Dwyer, nmdwyer@csmd.edu
A Conversation with Novelist Wayne Karlin and Author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
November 9, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Prince Frederick Campus (Room 119) or Online Webinar
Register here to Attend Online
The Webinar is open to all. To register to attend in person, please email Neal Dwyer, nmdwyer@csmd.edu. Due to COVID restrictions, in-person attendance is limited.
Born into the Việt Nam War in 1973, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai grew up witnessing the war's devastating aftermath. As a girl and young woman she worked as a street seller and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. She is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Vietnamese and bi-lingual English editions, and her writing has been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. She has been honored with some of the top literary awards of Vietnam, including the Poetry of the Year 2010 Award from the Hanoi Writers Association. Her debut novel and first book in English, The Mountains Sing, has become an international best seller. It received the BookBrowse Best Debut Award for 2020 and has been named a best book of 2020 by more than ten media establishments, including NPR. Dr. Nguyễn was awarded a Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship for contribution to peace and reconciliation and The Mountains Sing is a finalist for this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize. ‘[An] absorbing, stirring novel… Que Mai contains her saga with a poet’s discipline… She evokes the landscape hauntingly, as a site of loss so profound it assumes the quality of fable.’ – New York Times Book Review. https://nguyenphanquemai.com/about.html
Wayne Karlin is an author, editor, and teacher. His books include ten novels and three works of non-fiction, including Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam (Nation Books, 2009) which was also published in translation in Vietnam. His books have been published in translation in Sweden, Finland, Italy and Holland. Karlin has received five State of Maryland Individual Artist Awards in Fiction, two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paterson Prize in Fiction, the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award, and the University of Massachusetts Juniper Prize for Fiction for his latest novel A Wolf by the Ears. http://wayne-karlin.squarespace.com/about2
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