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Posted: 8:43 AM Nov 30, 2009
Nigerian Priest-Author Akpan Speaks at U-Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich. Jesuit priest and Nigerian author Uwem Akpan talks about his best-selling short story collection at the University of Michigan.
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Jesuit priest and Nigerian author Uwem Akpan talks about his best-selling short story collection at the University of Michigan.
Akpan's 2008 book "Say You're One of Them" contains fictional accounts of people seeking normality in the face of often extreme circumstances. He speaks Friday afternoon at the Ann Arbor school's Hatcher Graduate Library.
Akpan studied philosophy and English at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., and Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and theology at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.
He earned a master's degree in creative writing at Michigan in 2006.
"Say You're One of Them" won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
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