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October 5, 2001
"Writers Talk" Lecture Series Continues With 2001 American Book Award Winner Elizabeth NunezContact:
Patricia Conway
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Southampton College continues its "Writers Talk" series of literary lectures with 2001 American Book Award recipient Elizabeth Nunez on Tuesday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the Business Center Lecture Hall.
Nunez won the Book Award for her third novel ?Bruised Hibiscus? a dark devastating tale (based on a real-life crime) rife with symbolism, ominous powers and class disparity in Trinidad's complex society.
Nunez is a Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. Her latest novel "Discretion" will be published by Ballantine Books in February 2002. Her first book "When Rocks Dance" was published in 1986 and her novel "Beyond the Limbo Silence" won a 1999 IPPY (Independent Publishers) Award in the multicultural fiction category. Nunez is co-editor of a collection of essays "Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s" and has served as the director of the National Black Writers Conference, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, since 1986. Following Nunez will be writer Christopher Noel on Tuesday, October 23.
All talks and readings of the Southampton College Masters of Fine Arts Program are free and open to the public. The lectures will take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm through the end of November in the Business Center Lecture Hall. Call (631) 287-8107 for more information.