September 30 | 12:00 pm
Writers Read presents Padma Viswanathan
For the first event of the 2024-2025 season, Writers Read presents novelist, memoirist, and translator Padma Viswanathan.
Monday, September 30th, 2024, 12-1pm
Library Seminar Room LB-362, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
(3rd floor of Concordia Library on the downtown campus)
Padma Viswanathan’s novels have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and others. Viswanathan’s short fiction, essays and translations have appeared in Granta, The Boston Review, BRICK, and elsewhere. Her full-length translations include São Bernardo, by Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos, and Where We Stand by philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas—Fayetteville, where she is Founding Director of the Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk Residency Program.
This event is free and open to all. More info @ Writers Read Concordia.