One Maryland One Book Kickoff with Myriam J.A. Chancy
September 5, 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM America/New_York
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The Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities announces the One Maryland One Book kickoff event with What Storm, What Thunder author Myriam J.A. Chancy on September 5, 2024 at 6PM EDT. Join her conversation with Haitian intellectuals Dr. Ermion Pierre of the Essentia Center for Integrative Health, Dr. Marie-José Nzengou Tayo of the University of the West Indies, and Dr. Sabine Lamour of Brown University/Université d’Etat D’Haiti moderated by Dr Mamyrah Prosper of University of California Irvine. A Q&A follows.
This event is online and welcomes both readers of the book and those interested in learning about Haiti as it explores Haitian culture and literature.
This event will be held in English with Haitian Creole audio interpretation.
Registration for this event is required. RSVP at https://bit.ly/OMOBKICKOFF. Please note the listed time is 6PM Eastern/5PM Central.
Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author most recently of the novel Village Weavers (Tin House). Her previous novel, What Storm, What Thunder, was named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail; shortlisted for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize; longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize; and awarded an ABA from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her past novels include The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award in Fiction; The Scorpion’s Claw; and Spirit of Haiti, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize’s Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean. She is also the author of several academic monographs, including Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters and Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. Her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone Magazine, Electric Literature, and Guernica. She is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and HBA Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in California.
This event is co-sponsored by the Haitian Studies Association, Howard County Library System, Institute of Museum Library Services, Maryland State Library Agency, National Alliance for the Advancement of Haitian Professionals (NAAHP), National Endowment for the Humanities, PNC Foundation, University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies, University of Illinois Chicago Gender and Women’s Studies.
Date posted
Sep 3, 2024
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Sep 3, 2024