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  • A Statement from the English and Creative Writing Faculty

    July 1, 2021
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    The faculty of the Department of English and Creative Writing stands in solidarity with colleagues in the Program in African and African American Studies, and with all the faculty, students, staff, alumni, and other members of the Dartmouth community whose concerns were raised in the open letter to the Board of Trustees of the College, President Hanlon, and members of the senior leadership team, dated July 14, 2020.

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  • 2021 Creative Writing Prize Winners

    May 27, 2021
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    Asako Serizawa was born in Japan and grew up in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. A graduate of Tufts University, Brown University, and Emerson College, she has received two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a fiction fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book, Inheritors, won the PEN/Open Book Award and The Story Prize Spotlight Award. It was also longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. A Spanish translation of Inheritors is forthcoming from Tusquets Editores S.A.

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  • Poetry & Prose: Kiran Desai on May 27

    May 4, 2021
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    Please join the English and Creative Writing Department and Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program on May 27 at 4:45 pm (ET) for a reading with Kiran Desai, whose novel The Inheritance of Loss received the Man Booker Prize.

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