FREE EVENT: Maryse Condé & Elizabeth Nunez @ CUNY
Maryse Condé & Elizabeth Nunez
Author and Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, MaryseCondé will be joined by Elizabeth Nunez in an exploration of the role of biography in her work. Condé’s most recent book, Victoire, les saveursmotsis the biography of her mother and grandmother. Her writings include Heremakhonon;I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salemand Segu. Elizabeth Nunez, Ph.D. is Provost and Senior Vice President at Medgar Evers College and a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English. Dr. Nunez is the award-winning author of six novels: Prospero’s Daughter; Grace; Discretion; Bruised Hibiscus; Beyond the Limbo Silence; and When Rocks Dance. Dr. Nunez co-edited the anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad and her seventh novel, Anna In-Between, will be published in 2009.
January 28th, Wednesday, 7:00pm
Martin E. SegalTheatre
TheGraduate Center, CUNY
365Fifth Ave (btwn 34th&35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.LeonLevyCenterForBiography.org
