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The
John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum
continues on Monday, April 15 , 2013 with author Karen Yamashita.

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.

About Karen Yamashita:
Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer.  Her works, several of which contain elements of magic realism, include novels
I Hotel
(2010),
Circle K Cycles
(2001),
Tropic of Orange
(1997),
Brazil-Maru
(1992),
and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
(1990). Tei Yamashita’s novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity.  Yamashita was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award.  She is an Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American literature.

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For more information about each of the writers in this series, please go to the
John Fowles Center website
.

Next writer:

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.