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Join us as award-winning author Peter Ho Davies announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners.
Acclaimed author Peter Ho Davies won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2017 for The Fortunes, which recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and the fractures of immigrant family experience. He'll join us to discuss the writing life, and to announce the winners of the 85th Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards honoring the 2019 books that excel in confronting racism and exploring human diversity.
Previous winners include Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Gunnar Myrdal, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Chin, Sandra Cisneros and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.
Peter Ho Davies is the author of two novels, The Fortunes (winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and the Chautauqua Prize) and The Welsh Girl (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and two short story collections, The Ugliest House in the World (winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize) and Equal Love (A New York Times Notable Book). Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, he now makes his home in the US where he currently teaches at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
This event is presented in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.
For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email [email protected].
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