September 13, 2012
All Day
Saxbe Auditorium Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue
President E. Gordon Gee and Provost Joseph Alutto invite you to attend the thirteenth annual Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series at The Ohio State University. This program offers the campus and the Columbus community opportunities to benefit from some of the most eminent scholars, artists, and professionals who discuss and exemplify excellence through diversity.
Nuruddin Farah is the first African to win the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (in 1998). He has been described by some of the world’s foremost writers not just as “one of the finest contemporary African novelists” (Salman Rushdie) but “one of the world’s great writers” (Ishmael Reed). Farah is the author of nine novels, including From a Crooked Rib, Links, and his Blood in the Sun trilogy: Maps, Gifts, and Secrets. His novels have been translated into seventeen languages and have won numerous awards. Upon the publication of Sweet and Sour Milk, which won the English-speaking Union Literary Award, Farah became persona non grata in Somalia. In exile, he began what has become a lifelong literary project: “To keep my country alive by writing about it.” Born in Baidoa, Somalia, Farah now lives in Cape Town, South Africa. In recent years he has made frequent visits to Mogadishu for research purposes and to broker dialogue between the various armed groups vying for power in Somalia.
Co-sponsored by OSU Humanities Institute, African-American and African Studies,
Comparative Studies and Center for African Studies
Events are free of charge and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the public.
Please visit http://osu.edu/diversity/lecture.php to access the calendar of events.
For further information or special accommodations, please contact
Edie Waugh at waugh.2@osu.edu or (614) 688-3638.
