EVENTS: 090218/NC Talk by Junot Diaz-Pulitzer Prize Winning Author

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EVENTS: 090218/NC Talk by Junot Diaz-Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
At Duke University, Durham, NC

1) Feb 18 - NOTE: We expect a VERY FULL house for this event. Please plan to arrive early. Limited parking will be available on the East Campus Quad. No tickets are required; this is a free event to the first 250 people to arrive.
February 18, 2009 - Pulitzer Pize winning author, Junot Díaz, reading, reception and book signing
Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South present a reading, reception, and book signing with Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Junot Diaz. Wednesday, Feb 18th at 6PM in Richard White Auditorium (East Campus).

Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009. For more info on Diaz, see http://www.junotdiaz.com/index.html. This event is co-sponsored by the University Fund; Spanish Service Learning; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Departments of African & African American Studies, English, and Romance Studies; the Program in Literature; Student Affairs; and the Office of the Dean & Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

Books will be available for purchase on-site. Please note: parking and seating are limited. See website for map of the building location on the East Campus.