The Wisconsin Book Festival, presented by Madison Public Library in partnership with Madison Public Library Foundation, presents free, public author events that celebrate books and spark conversations.
Drawing upon San Francisco State University's robust academic foundation of ethnic, racial and social justice, the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies inspires interdisciplinary inquiry and exploration of Iranian diaspora experience and its impact on transnational identity.
Join us for a reading with author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi as he sits down with Alexandra Kleeman, faculty at the Creative Writing program.
Affairs of the Heart. Desire, power, violence, and forbidden love drive the turmoil within new books by PEN/Faulkner Award winner Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi (Savage Tongues), heralded debut author Robert Jones Jr.
Join us for a virtual event with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues, & Laura van den Berg on Thursday, August 12th at 7pm Central!
For our season finale, we're excited to present trailblazing authors Kiese Laymon (Long Division, Heavy), Melissa Febos (Girlhood, Abandon Me), Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (Savage Tongues, Call Me Zebra), Chris Stuck (Give My Love to the Savages), and Elle Nash (Nudes, Animals Eat Each Other).
Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…
An Evening with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi in conversation with Lina Meruane.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Savage Tongues (Mariner Books). From the PEN/Faulkner Award winning author of Fra Keeler and Call Me Zebra, comes a new novel about a young woman caught in an affair with a much older man, a personal and political exploration of desire, power, and human connection. The evening will be hosted by the author of Aftershocks (Simon & Schuster), Nadia Owusu. RSVP TO ATTEND HERE.
Lighthouse Lit Fest is a ten-day celebration of writers and readers, an extravaganza of weeklong and weekend advanced workshops, craft seminars, readings, salons, business panels, agent meetings, and parties.
Confirmed Visiting Authors for 2021 include playwright Sarah Ruhl; fiction writers Sheila Heti, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Steve Almond, and Bryan Washington; nonfiction writers Hanif Abdurraqib, Jaquira Díaz, Leslie Jamison, T Kira Madden, and Emily Rapp Black; and poets Carolyn Forché, Layli Long Soldier, and Gregory Pardlo.
Tuesday, March 24, 8 pm FA 258. A Readers' Series Event with Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, winner of the BU John Gardner Fiction Book Award for Call Me Zebra, which also won The 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, GRANTA, Guernica, BOMB, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among other places. She has lived in Iran, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and currently teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame.
Spring 2020 Writer in Residence Public Reading
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Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/HLIDEL
JARDINE LIBAIRE & AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI
Moderator: Claire Campbell, Program Director at the Writing Barn
Magnes Museum & Know Thyself: The Ultimate Mystery
