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AWARD-WINNING WRITERS FROM AROUND WORLD WILL SPEAK IN UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND LECTURE SERIES
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September 4, 2008
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The University of Richmond issued the following news release:
Award-winning novelists, poets, dramatists and memoirists from around the world will read from their works and speak in the University of Richmond's 2008-09 Department of English Writers' Series.
The visiting writers have won Pulitzer, Booker, T.S. Eliot, and Cannes Film Festival's Camera d'Or prizes and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among others. All programs are free and open to the public.
The series opens Oct. 1 with novelist Peter Carey, who will speak at 7 p.m., in Weinstein Hall's Brown-Alley Room. Carey is one of only two writers who have won the Booker Prize twice. His books deal with the complexities of ...
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