Eliot Prize in 2009. His latest poetry collection is The Rose of Toulouse. His latest novel, Children of Paradise (HarperCollins, US Granta, UK), is inspired by the events at Jonestown. Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the UK’s T.S. His radio play, Days and Nights in Bedlam, was broadcast by the BBC, along with several recent short stories. His essays and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Guardian, Wasafiri, Callaloo, Best American Essays and other publications. His play, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death, was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London. His first novel, The Longest Memory, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was made into a film by Channel 4 (UK). He teaches in the MFA and African Studies programs at Virginia Tech. This event will take place on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at 5:30pm in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room at UNC-Chapel Hill.įred D’Aguiar is a poet, novelist, playwright, born in London of Guyanese parents and raised in Guyana. The Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop joins the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History to host a night of prose with the fiction leaders of the USA CCWW, Jacinda Townsend and Fred D’Aguiar.
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