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Sandra Cisneros to deliver Thomas Wolfe Lecture Oct. 21
Latina author honored with prize named for one of Carolina’s most famous alumni
(Chapel Hill, N.C.—Oct. 6, 2014) – Author Sandra Cisneros will receive the 2014 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture Oct. 21 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Genome Sciences Building auditorium, 250 Bell Tower Road.
“The House on Mango Street,” Cisneros’ 1984 novel about a working-class Mexican-American girl growing up in inner-city Chicago, has sold more than 2 million copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Her other books include “My Wicked Wicked Ways,” “Loose Woman,” “Woman Hollering Creek,” “Pelitos,” “Caramelo,”and “Have You Seen Marie?”
Cisneros has been honored with the MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lannan Foundation Literary Award, American Book Award and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.
The Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture honor the memory of one of Carolina’s most famous alumni, Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Class of 1920). Established in 1999 with an endowed gift to the department of English, the program recognizes contemporary writers with distinguished bodies of work and gives the campus and the community the opportunity to hear important writers of their time.
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Website: http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/wolfe
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu
Communications and Public Affairs contact: Susan Hudson, (919) 962-8415, susan_hudson@unc.edu