Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hammer Museum presents:
Wole Soyinka in conversation with UCLA faculty member Mona Simpson and Theresia de Vroom of Loyola Marymount University.
The Line Up:
Wole Soyinka, Nobel prize-winning playwright, poet, and novelist, is considered by many to be Africa’s finest writer. Born in Nigeria, his work serves as a record of twentieth-century Africa’s political turmoil and struggle to reconcile tradition with modern culture. Soyinka has published over 40 works in a career that spans five decades including recently Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems; Art, Dialogue, and Outrage; and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis.
Mona Simpson, organizer of the Some Favorite Writers series, is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, and Off Keck Road.
Theresia de Vroom is Professor of English and Director of the Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts at Loyola Marymount University.
RSVP to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.
I hope you are able to attend.
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