Awards for the Winter Term writing contests administered by the Hopwood Awards Program will be announced. A lecture by Susan Choi will follow the announcement of the awards. Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, American Women, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her latest novel is My Education (2013).
| Building: | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) |
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| Event Type: | Other |
| Tags: | Books, Culture, Literature, Poetry, Writing |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program, Hopwood Awards Program |
