GREENVILLE, S.C.—Leonora Miano, a novelist and short story writer from Cameroon now living in France, will be at Furman University on Monday, Nov. 9 to read and discuss her work as part of a tour of American universities.
The event, “Discovering Afropea,” will be at 4 p.m. in McEachern Lecture Room (Furman Hall, Room 214). Her lecture, in French with interpretation in English, is free and open to the public.
Miano’s visit is an opportunity to hear from an emerging African woman writer who has garnered critical acclaim in France, where she moved as a teenager and has lived since 1991. She explores issues of multiculturalism from an Afropean (Afro-European) perspective. Her first novel, L’intérieur de la nuit (The Dark Heart of Night), was published in 2005.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman, the Furman Humanities Development Fund and the French Embassy in New York City, which set up a series of speaking engagements in the United States for Miano this month.
For more information, contact the Furman News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.