YOUNG
RISING BRITISH WRITER BARNARDINE EVARISTO TO
GIVE A WRITING WORKSHOP AND A READING, OCTOBER
17 & 18
New
York, N.Y, October 15, 2001--Bernardine Evaristo,
one of Britain's best young writers, will give
a writing workshop and a reading, October 17
& 18. The reading will be held at 6:30 p.m.
in the Ella Weed Room on Wednesday, Oct. 17.
She will also take part in a lecture about her
work on Thursday, Oct. 18, which will be given
as part of the English Conference. The lecture
will be delivered by Dr. John McCleod of Leeds
University in Britain.
Evaristo
is visiting New York as part of the UKwithNY
Festival, a festival which hosts visiting writers,
painters, and other artists from Britain. Evaristo
is the writer in residence at Barnard during
this week.
Evaristo
is the author of two highly acclaimed novels,
Lara and the recently published The
Emporer's Babe. The Daily Telegraph
in its Books of the Year round-up called Lara
"a short, lyrical, vividly real novel-in-verse,
dipping 150 years into the past to explore the
family history of a British woman with a Nigerian
father and English mother. It's funny, touching,
informative, passionate and very easy to read.
If you're tired of novels that all seem the
same, this one's a complete original."
Evaristo
is of mixed British and Nigerian ancestry, and
is considered a major voice in the multicultural
panorama that is literature in Britain today.
Her new book, a lyrical and evocative novel
in verse, is set in Roman London, and deals
with multicultural London in this period.
Barnard
College is the only academic institution in
New York City which was allocated a British
writer by the British Council for this promotion.
For
more information, please contact:
Professor Caryl Phillips, 212-854-6976 or
Cordelia Lawton, 212-854-9011.
Press
contact:
Petra Tuomi, 212-854-7907
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