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Lecture: ‘Reading and Writing Novels Across Cultures’
View(s):Randy Boyagoda, Professor of American Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto will deliver a lecture on “From Sri Lanka to Faulkner to Florida and Back Again: Reading and Writing Novels Across Cultures” on Friday, May 9 at 4.30 p.m. at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8. Boyagoda writer, critic and scholar has written for variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, First Things, The Paris Review, and Harper’s. His biography of Richard John Neuhaus, the Catholic priest and neoconservative intellectual, will be published by Random House in 2015. He is currently working on a new novel, and lives in Toronto with his wife and four daughters.