"Local Voices, Local Literature" speaker series with Author Lois-Ann Yamanaka

March 5, 11:00am - 12:30pm
West Oʻahu Campus, C225

Nationally acclaimed author and performing artist Lois-Ann Yamanaka will discuss her literary works at UH West O‘ahu. Born on Moloka‘i and raised in Pahala, Yamanaka confronts issues ranging from local ethnic tensions to sexuality to autism through literary works written mostly in Hawai‘i Creole English or Pidgin. She is the recipient of the Hawai‘i Award for Literature, the American Book Award, the Children's Choice Award for Literature, a Carnegie Foundation Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Yamanaka’s works include Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre; Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers; Blu’s Hanging; Heads by Harry; Name Me Nobody; Father of the Four Passages; Snow Angel, Sand Angel; and Behold the Many. Her work was reviewed in The New York Times Review of Books, The Nation, Library Journal, Booklist, and included in high school and university reading lists across the nation.


Ticket Information
Free and open to the public

Event Sponsor
UHWO Humanities Division and English concentration, UH Diversity and Equity Initiative, Bamboo Ridge Press, West Oʻahu Campus

More Information
689-2800

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