Chinelo Okparanta, graduate of the Writers’ Workshop, acclaimed novelist, and Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Creative Writing at Swarthmore College will read from her newest novel on Thursday, November 12 at the Dey House at 8 pm.

Her new novel This Impossible Life will be published in November by Mariner Books. Her awards and honors are impressive, as is the praise for her forthcoming novel. From her website: “She was one of Granta's six New Voices for 2012 and is a Lambda Award winner for Lesbian Fiction, an O. Henry Short Story Prize winner, a finalist for the Rolex Mentors and Proteges Arts Initiative, a finalist for the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and a finalist for the Caine Prize, among others. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.”

This event is sponsored by the Department of English; Writers’ Workshop; International Writing Program; Department of Languages, Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures; Obermann Center for Advanced Studies; International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization

^{[Bio source: https://www.chinelookparanta.com/chinelo-okparanta-biography]}

^{Photo credit | Onyinye Ihezukwu}

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