March 12: Junot Diaz reading from "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"

The U.S. Embassy, Verlag S. Fischer and Thalia Buchhandlung

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Junot Diaz

Mr. Diaz will read from his award winning novel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
(dt. Titel bei Fischer: „Das kurze wundersame Leben des Oscar Wao“)
Actress Jasmin Tabatabai will read from the German translation.
„literatur live“
Thursday, March 12, 19.30 hrs
Venue
babylon berlin:mitte
Rosa Luxemburg-Str. 30
10178 Berlin
Tickets: babylon:mitte (Info-Tel: 24 25 96-9)

Junot Díaz 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.

Further tour dates

Monday, March 9: Literaturhaus in cooperation with the U.S. Consulate General Hamburg
Tuesday, March 10: Instituto Cervantes Frankfurt, Literaturhaus Frankfurt and U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt
Wednesday, March 11: Book Fair "Leipzig liest" at Veranstaltungstonne at Moritzbastei in cooperation with and U.S. Consulate General Leipzig
Friday, March 13, LitCologne / Generalkonsulat Düsseldorf

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