Writers Speak | Ruth Ozeki in conversation with Meng Jin

When:
Thursday, Mar 30, 2023 6:00p -
8:00p

Where:
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
3 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
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mahindrahumanities Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

Categories:
Art, Classes, Lectures & Conferences, University

Event website:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/writers-speak-ruth-ozeki

Join us for a Writers Speak event with novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki, in conversation with Meng Jin.


6:00pm at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University. Free and open to the public.


About the Speakers

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the best-selling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness, winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being, which won the LA Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, The Face: A Time Code, and the documentary film, Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foun­dation. She is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities at Smith College.


Meng Jin is the author of the novel Little Gods (2020, Custom House), which was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award, LA Times First Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award; and the story collection Self-Portrait with Ghost (2022, Custom House). She is the recipient of a David TK Wong Fellowship, Steinbeck Fellowship, and Creative Capital Award, and her short fiction has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses and Best American Short Stories. 


About the Series

Writers Speak, a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by Duncan White, Associate Director of Studies in History & Literature at Harvard University.

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