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Friday | October 3 | 2008
Fiction Night | Discussions Among Writers
Writing About Home
With Sana Krasikov, Yiyun Li, and Manil Suri. Moderated by Cressida Leyshon.
Sana Krasikov was born in Ukraine and grew up in Georgia and the United States. Her first published story, “Companion,” appeared in The New Yorker in 2005. Her most recent story for the magazine, “The Repatriates,” appeared in the April 21st issue and was included in her début collection, “One More Year,” which came out in August. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Fulbright Scholarship.
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States when she was twenty-three. Her début story collection, “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” won the inaugural Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a Guardian First Book Award, and a Hemingway Foundation/pen Award. Her first novel, “The Vagrants,” will be published in February. Her story “A Man Like Him” appeared in the May 12th issue of The New Yorker.
Manil Suri grew up in India and received his Ph.D. in mathematics in the United States. He is currently a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. “The Seven Circles,” his first published story in English, appeared in The New Yorker in 2000 and was part of his début novel, “The Death of Vishnu,” which was a finalist for the pen/Faulkner Award. His second novel, “The Age of Shiva,” came out in February.
Cressida Leyshon is the deputy fiction editor of The New Yorker.
7 p.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre