Written Arts Program Presents
Oblong Online: Alaa Al Aswany, The Republic of False Truths
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Online Event
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
In conversation with Dinaw Mengestu. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities at Bard College.
Alaa Al Aswany is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Yacoubian Building, the best-selling novel in the Arab world for more than five years, with more than a million copies sold around the world; Chicago, named by Newsday as the best-translated novel of 2006; and The Automobile Club of Egypt. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and published in more than one hundred countries. He is the recipient of the Grinzane Cavour Prize, and in 2016 he was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and was named a “20 under 40” writer to watch by The New Yorker. Mengestu’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, Granta, and other publications.
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Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Online Event