On Stories Across Faiths and Cultures

Last updated on: May 28, 2012 at 1:39 pm by enumaokoro

On Stories Across Faiths and Cultures 2012-05-28T13:39:55+00:00 enumaokoro

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Meeting Chimamanda Adichie at The Festival of Faith and Writing.

“It must be a skill, like fishing, to cast your net into a river of dreams and catch a splendid array of words.” So says the young poet Nur, one of the complex characters in Lyrics Alley, the newest novel by Muslim Sudanese-Egyptian author Leila Aboulela. It is true. Writing is a skill requiring practice and dreaming.

This summer I am spending six weeks in Paris, France as the Writer-in-Residence at L’église Américaine à Paris. I will be giving a few talks and working on my next writing project. In order to write well, I believe it is important to read well. So, as part of my writing practice over the next six weeks I will be reading a few works of fiction by and about non-Americans. As writers and readers I think it is essential to encounter the stories of those distinctively different from whomever we consider ourselves to be.

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