John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum with Miguel Syjuco
February 21, 2013
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, February 25, 2013 with author Miguel Syjuco.
Miguel Syjuco is a Filipino writer from Iloilo, and is the son of Augusto Syjuco Jr., the current representative of the second district of Iloilo. His first novel, Ilustrado, won the 2008 Palanca Awards Grand Prize for the Novel in English, the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2010 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. He lives and works in Montreal.
The reading will begin at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room in the Leatherby Libraries. Admission is free and this event is open to the public.
For more information about each of the writers in this series, please go to the John Fowles Center website.
WRITERS:
Feb. 18: MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
Feb. 25: MIGUEL SYJUCO
Mar. 11: ZULFIKAR GHOSE
Apr 1: ANDREW LAM
Apr. 15: KAREN YAMASHITA
Apr. 22: DAVID MATLIN
ABOUT JFC:
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing serves to promote and advance the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction and film.
The Center offers students and non-students alike an opportunity to gain a greater appreciation for the “written word” and those who write it. Each year a distinguished group of national and international writers is invited to Chapman University, making these writers available not only to the Chapman community, but to the Orange County and, by extension, the Southern California community as well.
Now into its second decade, The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing has invited to Chapman such national and international writers as: Salman Rushdie, Luisa Valenzuela, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gioconda Belli, Alicia Partnoy, Raymond Federman, Steve Katz, Ronald Sukenick, Raúl Zurita, Elizabeth George, Ralph Berry, David Matlin, Charles Bernstein, Larry McCaffery, Alicia Kozameh, Fanny Howe, David Antin, and Willis Barnstone.
