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Presentation to recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing at Rice University preceding the reading.\u00a0<\/STRONG><\/P> Following the reading, Aminatta Forna and Samanta Schweblin will be interviewed on-stage by\u00a0Daniel Pe\u00f1a<\/A>,\u00a0a Pushcart Prize winning writer and Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston-Downtown, whose debut novel\u00a0BANG <\/EM>was just published by\u00a0Arte P\u00fablico Press.<\/STRONG><\/P> Download a flier about the reading here<\/A><\/STRONG>.<\/P> AMINATTA\u00a0FORNA \u201cis a born storyteller,\u201d writes\u00a0The Boston Globe.<\/EM>\u00a0Her novels include\u00a0The Hired Man<\/EM>, named a best book of the year by NPR and the\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle<\/EM>;\u00a0The Memory of Love<\/EM>, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Best Book Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award; and\u00a0Ancestor Stones<\/EM>, winner of the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award and named a\u00a0New York Times<\/EM>\u00a0Editor\u2019s Choice book. Her memoir\u00a0The<\/EM>\u00a0Devil That Danced on the Water\u00a0<\/EM>tells the story of going back to Sierra Leone to investigate the execution of her dissident father.\u00a0<\/EM>She received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and was a finalist for the 2016 Neustadt Prize. Her work has been translated into 16 languages. She will be reading from her novel\u00a0Happiness<\/EM>, coming out in March 2018. Set in modern day London, a chance encounter and a tale of love, loss, cruelty, and kindness raise questions about the meaning of happiness.<\/P> Reading followed by a book sale and signing. LINKS:<\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cAminatta Forna: We must take back our stories and reverse the gaze,\u201d in The Guardian,<\/EM> February 17, 2017. An extract from a keynote speech given by Aminatta Forna to the African Studies Association.<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cAminatta Forna: a life in writing,\u201d The Guardian,<\/EM> May 3, 2013.<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cBetween Pain and Peace,\u201d by Maaza Mengiste, in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, <\/EM>January 9, 2011. A review of The Memory of Love<\/EM> by Aminatta Forna.<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cThis Week in Fiction: Samanta Schweblin on an Adult Man\u2019s Infantilization,\u201d an interview with Deborah Treisman in The New Yorker<\/EM>, May 22, 2017.<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cSAMANTA\u00a0SCHWEBLIN is one of the most promising voices in modern literature,\u201d\u00a0according to Mario Vargas Llosa.\u00a0Fever Dream<\/EM>, her first novel and the first of her books to be translated into English from Spanish, was a finalist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.\u00a0Kirkus<\/EM>, in a starred review, calls it \u201ca taut, exquisite page-turner\u2026.\u00a0In\u00a0a literary thriller of the highest order, Schweblin teases out the underlying anxieties of being vulnerable and loving vulnerable creatures and of being an inhabitant of a planet with an increasingly uncertain future.\u201d\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/EM>says \u201cthe book feels as if it belongs to\u00a0a new literary genre altogether.\u201d\u00a0She is also the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and was named to\u00a0Granta\u2019s<\/EM>\u00a0list of best writers in Spanish under 35. Her story collection P\u00e1jaros en la Boca<\/EM>\u00a0(Mouthful of Birds<\/EM>), for which she received the Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas Prize, will come out in English in 2018. Born in Argentina, she now lives in Germany.<\/P>
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