Writers Speak | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah in conversation with Laura van den Berg
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 6:00pm | Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut collection, Friday Black, was a New York Times bestseller, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. His first novel Chain-Gang All-Stars was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Books Are My Bag Awards, and selected as a New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. Adjei-Brenyah is a National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honoree.
Laura van den Berg is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Harvard University. She is the author of of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (2020), one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020.