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Verse Like Water presents best-selling novelist, poet Chris Abani

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program at Central Lakes College, presents Chris Abani, an acclaimed novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright, at 12pm on Nov. 16 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. Book signing and craft talk to follow. 

Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother, Abani received a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria, an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has resided in the United States since 2001. 

Abani’s books of fiction include The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song For Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, Graceland, and Masters of the Board. His poetry collections are Smoking the BibleSanctificum, There Are No Names for Red, Feed Me The Sun: Collected Long Poems, Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne’s Lot, and Kalakuta Republic. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the Hurston Wright Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, among many honors. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Romanian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Dutch, Bosnian and Serbian.
 

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