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C.K. Williams Reading Series: Hernan Diaz

Event Overview

Dates

March 6, 2020

Hours

6:30 PM

Location

Forum, Lewis Arts complex

Admission

FREE & open to the public

blue book with 80x80 on coverFiction writer Hernan Diaz reads from his work along with creative writing seniors Peter Schmidt, Grace Searle, Allie Spensley, Emilie Szemraj, and Khanh Vu. Book sales and signing will follow the readings.

The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Princeton’s Creative Writing faculty for 20 years, showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.

The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing celebrates 80 years during the 2019-20 academic year with readings by 80 writers.

 

ABOUT

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Photo credit: Jason Fulford

HERNAN DIAZ was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, In the Distance. The book won the Saroyan International Prize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among other distinctions. It was also a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year, one of Lit Hub’s Top 20 Books of the Decade, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Diaz has published stories and essays in Cabinet, The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. Diaz is also the author of Borges, between History and Eternity, an exploration of aspects of the work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, and edits an academic journal at Columbia University.

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The Forum is located on the street level of the Wallace Dance Building at the Lewis Arts complex, located at 122 Alexander Street in Princeton, NJ.  View map of Lewis Arts complex

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  • Program in Creative Writing

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