Brenda Flanagan Reads at the American Center

Brenda Flanagan

When: May 10, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Where: American Center, Tržiště 13, Praha 1

Dr. Brenda Flanagan teaches creative writing, and African American and Caribbean Literatures at Davidson College in North Carolina. Her collection of short stories, In Praise of Island Women & Other Crimes has been translated into Russian. Her prize-winning novel, You Alone Are Dancing, was published by the University of Michigan Press.

In her most recent novel, Allah in the Islands, she writes about an Islamic coup in the Caribbean. Inspired by the Czech Surrealists, she is currently working on a book about Eva Švankmajerová.

She is will also perform at the Book World Prague on Friday, May 13th, 2011.

Dr. Flanagan will read in English.

Watch the interview with Brenda Flanagan, in 2009 talked with her the Embassy's Cultural Attaché David Gainer.