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SUMMARY:Beck Series presents Lesley Nneka Arimah
DESCRIPTION:Denison University's Beck Series welcomes GLCA Fiction Winner Lesley Nneka Arimah.\nArimah is the author of "What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky." Evocative\, wrenching\, and subversive\, this dazzlingly accomplished collection explores the ties that bind us - parents and children\, husbands and wives\, lovers and friends - to one another and to the places we call home. Her short story\, "Skinned\," published in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 53\, was awarded the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing.\n\nWinner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award\, finalist for the Aspen Prize\, and named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine\, Elle\, the Chicago Tribune\, the Boston Globe\, the Millions\, Nylon\, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune\, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky\," was also selected by the National Book Foundation as a 2017 Five Under 35 honoree.\n\nArimah has also won an O. Henry Prize and was the Africa Regional Winner for the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize\, as well as being shortlisted for the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has received grants and awards from AWP\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, the Jerome Foundation and others. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines\, including The New Yorker\, which nominated her for a National Magazine Award\, Harper's\, and Granta.\n\nBorn in the United Kingdom\, Arimah moved grew up in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom before moving to the United States in her early teens\, where she spent a decade in Louisiana before relocating to Minnesota. She is currently at work on a novel.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Denison University'\;s Beck Series welcomes GLCA Fiction Winner Lesley Nneka Arimah.\nArimah is the author of "\;What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky."\; Evocative\, wrenching\, and subversive\, this dazzlingly accomplished collection explores the ties that bind us - parents and children\, husbands and wives\, lovers and friends - to one another and to the places we call home. Her short story\, "\;Skinned\,"\; published in McSweeney&rsquo\;s Quarterly Concern Issue 53\, was awarded the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing.
\n\nWinner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the \; NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award\, finalist for the Aspen Prize\, and named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine\, Elle\, the Chicago Tribune\, the Boston Globe\, the Millions\, Nylon\, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune\, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky\,"\; was also selected by the National Book Foundation as a 2017 Five Under 35 honoree.
\n\nArimah has also won an O. Henry Prize and was the Africa Regional Winner for the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize\, as well as being shortlisted for the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has received grants and awards from AWP\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, the Jerome Foundation and others. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines\, including The New Yorker\, which nominated her for a National Magazine Award\, Harper&rsquo\;s\, and Granta.
\n\nBorn in the United Kingdom\, Arimah moved grew up in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom before moving to the United States in her early teens\, where she spent a decade in Louisiana before relocating to Minnesota. She is currently at work on a novel.
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LOCATION:Denison University Boardroom of Barney-Davis Hall 200 West Loop
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URL:https://business.granvilleoh.com/events/details/beck-series-presents-lesley-nneka-arimah-14044
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