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9/20/99

1999-2000 WRITERS SERIES BEGINS AT SLU

CANTON -- Edwidge Danticat will open the 1999-2000 Writers Series 
at St. Lawrence University, with a reading from her recent work on 
Wednesday, September 29, in the Sykes Common Room at 8 p.m. The 
event is open to the public, free of charge.
	Danticat, a native of Haiti, was chosen by Harper's Bazaar 
as one of the "20 people in their 20s" who will make a difference, 
and in 1996, she made Granta magazine's list of "Best American Young 
Novelists." In 1999, The New Yorker granted her the same distinction. 
She is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Winfrey Book Club 
pick in June 1997 and the short-story collection Krik? Krak!, which 
was nominated for a National Book Award, making her the youngest 
nominee ever, at age 25. Danticat's second novel, The Farming of 
Bones, based on the 1937 massacre of 20,000 Haitians in the Dominican 
Republic, was described by Publishers Weekly as "a perfectly paced 
narrative written in prose that is lushly poetic and erotic, specifically 
detailed. . . and starkly realistic."
	Other writers in this year's series are Amiri Baraka and Blue 
Ark, October 12; Andrea Barrett, November 10; Tobias Wolff, March 1; 
Janette Turner Hospital, March 7; Chinua Achebe, April 3; Billy Collins, 
April 12; Wole Soyinka, April 27. For more information, contact Natalia 
Singer, English department, (315) 229-5898.

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