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Hush, I know a story you don’t know: The Small Story/The Big Politics

Reading - Literary | November 12 | 4-6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton), 6F Conference Room

Speaker: Merlinda Bobis, author of "Banana Heart Summer" and "The Solemn Lantern Maker"

Sponsor: Southeast Asia Studies, Center for

Award-winning Filipino-Australian writer Merlinda Bobis takes the “big stories” and act of telling stories to task. How do we make known the hidden story? How do we write the small, personal story into the large social and political issues? How do we ensure that the human tale is not swept away by the master narratives of history and “the establishment”? What is the narrative junction between fact and fiction? Bobis will address these questions crucial to the writing of "The Solemn Lantern Maker" (2009), her new novel set in Manila.

Merlinda Bobis received the Philippine National Book Award for "White Turtle" and the Philippine Balagtas Award, a lifetime achievement award for her fiction and poetry in English, Pilipino and Bicol. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Event Contact: 510-642-3609