Xavier University of Louisiana’s Department of English, and Read Today, Lead Tomorrow invite you to a Fiction Reading by Domnica Radulescu Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, 7:00 P.M. at the Administration Bldng. Chapel “We are in Italy. This must be what freedom feels like, this is its smell, its sound. It is raw and unexpected. It chuckles, and it flutters. I have no comparisons, no metaphors that describe this freedom. I’ve never experienced this before, only heard about it. I had imagined it: a wild creature with disheveled hair. But it’s not like that. It’s the sound of laughter, an inflection in the voice. The way Mario said grazie.” From Train to Trieste. Vintage Books© 2008 Domnica Radulescu Domnica Radulescu is the Edwin A. Morris Professor of French and Italian literature at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of two best-selling novels: Black Sea Twilight (Doubleday 2010 & 2011) and Train to Trieste (Knopf 2008 & 2009). Train to Trieste has been published in twelve languages and is the winner of the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Her play The Town with Very Nice People: A Strident Operetta has been chosen as a runner up for the 2013 Jane Chambers Playwriting award given by the Association for Theater in Higher Education. Her play Naturalized Woman was produced at the Thespis Theater Festival in New York City in 2012. She has authored, edited and co-edited several scholarly books on theater, exile and representations of women and received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. She is also a Fulbright scholar and is presently working on her fourth novel titled My Father’s Orchards and on a new play titled Exile is My Home. This event was funded in part by Read Today, Lead Tomorrow, and the English Department. For more information please contact Dr. Biljana D. Obradović at (504) 520-5155 or [email protected]
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