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Giving Voice: Uwem Akpan, Edwidge Danticat & Dave Eggers

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Partner:: New Yorker
Location:: SVA Theatre 1
New York, NY
Event Date:: 10.01.10
Speakers:: Uwem Akpan,; Edwidge Danticat,; Dave Eggers,; Cressida Leyshon
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Summary: Uwem Akpan is a native of Nigeria and a Jesuit priest. His New Yorker début story, "An Ex-Mas Feast," ran in 2005 and appeared in his story collection, "Say You're One of Them," which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. His story "Baptizing the Gun" ran in the January 4th issue of the magazine.

Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti. She is the author of the memoir "Brother, I'm Dying," which won a 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection "Krik? Krak!"; and the novels "Breath, Eyes, Memory," "The Farming of Bones," and "The Dew Breaker," parts of which first appeared in The New Yorker. A new memoir, "Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work," comes out in September.

Dave Eggers is the author of six books, including "Zeitoun" and "What Is the What." Several of his books, among them the story collection "How We Are Hungry" and "The Wild Things," an interpretation of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," were first excerpted in The New Yorker. He is the founder of McSweeney's and of 826 National, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for young people.

Cressida Leyshon is the deputy fiction editor of The New Yorker.

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Uwem Akpan

Uwem Akpan is a native of Nigeria and a Jesuit priest. His New Yorker début story, "An Ex-Mas Feast," ran in 2005 and appeared in his story collection, "Say You're One of Them," which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. His story "Baptizing the Gun" ran in the January 4th issue of the magazine.

Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1969. At a young age, Danticat's parents emigrated to New York and she stayed in Haiti with her aunt. It was during this time that she was influenced by the Haitian practice of story telling. At the age of twelve, Danticat joined her parents in Brooklyn. She received a BA in French literature from Barnard College and an MFA at Brown University, where she wrote Breath, Eyes, Memory, a novel that speaks of four generations of Haitian women who must overcome poverty and powerlessness. At the age of twenty-six, in 1995, she became a finalist for the National Book Award for Krik? Krak! She received the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize and fiction awards from The Carribean Writer, Seventeen, and Essence magazines. Drawing on her experiences as a Haitian-American she writes of one of the most under-represented cultures in American literature using a style which is both poetic and passionate.

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the author of six books, including "Zeitoun" and "What Is the What." Several of his books, among them the story collection "How We Are Hungry" and "The Wild Things," an interpretation of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," were first excerpted in The New Yorker. He is the founder of McSweeney's and of 826 National, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for young people.

Cressida Leyshon

Cressida Leyshon is the deputy fiction editor of The New Yorker.

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01.: Introduction

04 min 30 sec

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02.: Writing About Largely Ignored Places and Issues

05 min 26 sec

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03.: Telling Other People's Stories

05 min 52 sec

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04.: Communicating Political Background

06 min 56 sec

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05.: History Takes a Back Seat to Personal Drama

03 min 06 sec

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06.: Writing from Child's Perspective

04 min 51 sec

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07.: Burden of Truth in Nonfiction

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08.: The Process of Writing a True Story

05 min 38 sec

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09.: Meeting Oprah Winfrey

02 min 12 sec

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10.: Confronting Criticism

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11.: Painstakingly Researched Details

05 min 28 sec

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12.: Day-to-Day Life Beyond Writing

09 min 14 sec

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13.: Reading Program in Haiti

02 min 42 sec

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14.: Q & A

15 min 47 sec

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Edwidge Danticat Engages the Human Side of History

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Author Edwidge Danticat addresses how the everyday aspects of her characters' lives are intertwined with the harsh political realities of Haiti.
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