DISCUSSION SERIES TO FOCUS ON CONTEMPORARY ASIAN WOMEN WRITERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:       February 25, 2005
Contact:  Nancy Bender, Public Services Librarian, (310) 458-8922
 

Santa Monica Public Library and Santa Monica College present Fighting Against Iron-Strong Reality: Contemporary Asian Women Writers.  Santa Monica College English Professor Hari Vishwanadha hosts a series of discussions on contemporary Asian women writers in May.  The series will focus on writers from four Asian countries.  On Tuesday, May 3 at 11:15 a.m., Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin and her book, Shame, will be discussed at Santa Monica College in Room 214 of the Art Building.    

Korean literature will be the topic on Saturday, May 14, at 2:00 p.m. at the Montana Avenue Branch Library, 1704 Montana Avenue.  On that day the discussion will focus on two writers, Pak Wan-so, author of The Naked Tree, and O Cong-hui, contributing author of Words of Farewell. 

Santa Monica College hosts the May 19 event, which begins at 11:15 a.m. in Room 214 of the Art Building, and focuses on Vietnamese author Duong Thu Huong and her book, Novel Without a Name.     

The final event in the series takes place at the Montana Avenue Branch Library, 1704 Montana Avenue, on Thursday, May 26 at 7:00 p.m. Two Chinese authors will be discussed, Can Xue, author of Old Floating Cloud, and Chen Ran, author of A Private Life.

All events are free and open to the public.  Seating is on a first-arrival basis.  For more information, please call 458-8600 or check the Library website at www.smpl.org.

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