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Monday, November 30, 2009 7:00PM
Chris Abani- "Campus/Community Reading Initiative"
Chris Abani, imprisoned by the Nigerian government as a teenager for his writings, is currently a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and has been recognized as one of the best writers to emerge from Africa in half a century.   He is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award and the PEN Hemingway Book Prize.  His most recent recognition is as a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.  Three of his books, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and Song for Night, were named a New York Times Editor's Choice.