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Safiya Sinclair Celebrates the Paperback Release of Her Memoir HOW TO SAY BABYLON
Rich in emotion and page-turning drama, "How to Say Babylon" is “a melodious wave of memories” (NPR) of a woman finding her own power. Safiya will be joined in discussion by author JONATHAN ESCOFFERY.
SAFIYA SINCLAIR was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the memoir "How to Say Babylon", winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Kirkus Prize. "How to Say Babylon" was one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the year, a Washington Post Top 10 Book of 2023, a TIME magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2023, one of The Atlantic’s 10 Best Books of 2023, a Read with Jenna/TODAY show book club pick, and one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023. Sinclair is also the author of the poetry collection "Cannibal", winner of a Whiting Award. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University.
JONATHAN ESCOFFERY is the author of "If I Survive You", a National Book Award and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award nominee, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the John Leonard Prize. In 2023, Jonathan was named among the 36 Forces Shaping the Cultural Conversation by Harper’s Bazaar. He is the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a NEA Fellowship, and the ASME Award for Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Observer, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.
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