Best known for his brilliant novel The Hours, recently adapted for the big screen, Cunningham writes illuminating portraits of modern times.

 

A writer of “originality, authority, tenderness, and pitiless wild wit” (Philip Roth), Louise Erdrich is a consummate storyteller, strongly influenced by the oral traditions of her Native American Chippewa/Ojibwa heritage.

 

Neustadt International Literature Prize Laureate Nuruddin Farah has been lauded by the New York Times as one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction, winning acclaim for his searing portraits of his birthplace, Somalia. 

 

Major American poet Robert Hass has been United States Poet Laureate (1995-1997) and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, and is a renowned translator and critic.

24 Feb, 12:00pm