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Reading with award-winning fantasy fiction writer China Miéville

Event Date: 11/05/2012
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Location: AUD 10th Floor, Library Angell Reading Room

The MFA in Creative Writing Program and the Roosevelt University Murray-Green Library are hosting a reading with award-winning author and Roosevelt University Writer in Residence, China Miéville. Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell and Philip K. Dick. His previous novel, Embassytown, was a first and widely praised foray into science fiction (published in 2011). This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program Peggy Shinner at pshinner@roosevelt.edu

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