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The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, March 11 , 2013 with author Zulfikar Ghose.

Zulfikar A. Ghose is a novelist, poet and essayist. A native of Pakistan who has long lived in Texas, he writes in the surrealist mode of much Latin American fiction, blending fantasy and harsh realism.  Ghose grew up a Muslim in Sialkot and in largely Hindu Bombay (Mumbai), then moved with his family to England. He graduated from Keele (England) University in 1959 and married Helena de la Fontaine, an artist from Brazil (a country he later used as the setting for six of his novels). His first novel,
The Contradictions
(
1966)
, explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life. In
The Murder of Aziz Khan
(1967) a small farmer tries to save his traditional land from greedy developers. Ghose’s trilogy
The Incredible Brazilian
, comprising
The Native (1972), The Beautiful Empire (1975), and A Different World (1978)
, presents the picaresque adventures, often violent or sexually perverse, of a man who goes through several reincarnations. Ghose’s other novels include
Crump’s Terms (1975)
,
A New History of Torments (1982)
, and
The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992)
among others.  He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Texas-Austin.

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.

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

Upcoming writers:

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.