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Michael Cunningham

Evening with Michael Cunningham

One of America’s leading contemporary writers Michael Cunningham will be in Prague December 15-19.  In cooperation with the Prague Writers’ Festival, the U.S Embassy will present an Evening with Michael Cunningham on Monday, December 18.  Mr. Cunningham will read from work in progress and answer questions from the audience at the event, which will be held at the Embassy’s new American Center.

Michael Cunningham is author of six novels, which include A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood, and the non-fiction work Land’s End: A Walk Through Provincetown. He is best known for his novel The Hours, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.  His most recent novel is Specimen Days, evoking the works of Walt Whitman. Michael Cunningham lives in New York.  For more information visit the author’s official website http://www.michaelcunninghamwriter.com/.

The evening will be moderated by Richard Olehla who just returned from a Fulbright Scholarship in American Literature at New York University.  Since 2003, Richard has been teaching at Skvorecky Literary Academy in Prague and writing articles for Czech press and www.iLiteratura.cz.  

Monday, December 18, 2006, 17:00 – 18:30
At the American Center
Tržiště 13, Prague 1, 1^st floor

The Embassy’s current exhibition “Writers” by noted American photographer Nancy Crampton will be open for viewing at the event.       

RVSPs are required.  Please confirm your attendance at tel. 257 022 019 or cuchnovakx@state.gov
The presentation, reading, and discussion will be in English

Michael Cunningham will also read from his work at the Municipal Library in Prague on Saturday, December 16 at 20:00.   
For information, see www.mlp.cz .