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1/31/00

SLU FRIENDS OF LIBRARIES CELEBRATE PROFESSOR'S BOOK

CANTON -- The Friends of the Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries 
at St. Lawrence University will hold a reception on Friday, 
February 11, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of ODY Library 
to celebrate the publication of a book about Somalian author Nuruddin 
Farah by Professor of English Patricia A. Alden and Louis Tremaine, 
associate professor of English at the University of Richmond.
	Alden and Tremaine will speak about the book at the event, 
which is open to the public free of charge.
	Nuruddin Farah was published in 1999 as part of the Twayne's 
World Authors Series. Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa, in what is 
now the Republic of Somalia. The author of eight books, including the 
trilogy of novels known as Variations on the Theme of an African 
Dictatorship, he was awarded the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for 
Literature. Exiled from Somalia after the publication of his novel 
Sweet and Sour Milk, Farah began what has become a lifelong literary 
pursuit: "to keep my country alive by writing about it."
	The book by Alden and Tremaine is an examination of Farah's 
work. Alden is a specialist in African literature and was recently 
named director of international and intercultural education at 
St. Lawrence; she will begin those duties in July.

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