WRITE WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW: READINGS FROM CION

The Center for the Writing Arts is proud to announce Zakes Mda as the Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall Quarter 2010. Mda will be teaching Writing 301: The Art of Fiction for the CWA and a literature course in the English Department.

Q&A will follow the reading, as well as a book signing by the author.

Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter, filmmaker and music composer. He has published sixteen books, eight of which are novels and the rest collections of plays, poetry and a monograph on the theory and practice of theater-for-development. His works have been translated into 20 languages, including Catalan, Korean, Serbian, Norwegian and Italian. They have won a number of awards including the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and designation as an American Library Association Notable Book.  His novel Cion, set in southeast Ohio, was nominated for the NAACP Image Award.  He commutes between the USA and South Africa, working as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, as a beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, a dramaturge at the Market Theater, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.  

SCHOLAR AND LITERARY THEORIST JAHAN RAMAZANI LECTURE: ON TRANSNATIONAL POETICS

Sponsored by the Kaplan Humanities Institute, the Poetry and Poetics Workshop of the English Department, and the Center for the Writing Arts.

Jahan Ramazani is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English; Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; andYeats and the Poetry of Death. He edited the most recent edition ofThe Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry and, with Jon Stallworthy, The Twentieth Century and After, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the William Riley Parker Prize.

LECTURE BY ZAKES MDA, VISITING WRITER IN RESIDENCE: THOUGHTS ON LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY

The Center for the Writing Arts is proud to announce Zakes Mda as the Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall Quarter 2010. Mda will be teaching Writing 301: The Art of Fiction for the CWA and a literature course in the English Department.

Q&A plus a book-signing to follow the event.

Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter, filmmaker and music composer. He has published sixteen books, eight of which are novels and the rest collections of plays, poetry and a monograph on the theory and practice of theater-for-development. His works have been translated into 20 languages, including Catalan, Korean, Serbian, Norwegian and Italian. They have won a number of awards including the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and designation as an American Library Association Notable Book.  His novel Cion, set in southeast Ohio, was nominated for the NAACP Image Award.  He commutes between the USA and South Africa, working as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, as a beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, a dramaturge at the Market Theater, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.