Name: Reading Session with Sharmila Seyyid
Start: 2022-09-28T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-09-28T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library

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Sharmila Seyyid is a Sri Lankan writer and activist. She has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and her work has received awards including 'best novel of the year' for Ummath, which is available in English from HarperCollins. Two of her latest works will soon be published in English as well.

This event is in conjunction with "Entangled Memories of Violence: Rise and Heal," and exhibit of Sharmila's writing and activism currently in UNO Criss Library. Learn more about the literary exhibition here:
https://events.unomaha.edu/event/entangled_memories_of_violence_rise_and_heal

Sponsored by: UNO Goldstein Center of Human Rights, Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy, Department of English, and UNO Libraries.

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