#  Canada Program Special Event 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 13, 2017** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

 Writers Speak Series  
*A Reading from Selected Works*  
**Michael Ondaatje**, Author  
  
In Conversation with **Claire Messud**, Author and Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Harvard University   
  
**Michael Ondaatje** is the author of five novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel *The English Patient* won the Man Booker Prize, and his fourth novel, *Anil’s Ghost*, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.  
**Claire Messud** is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the English Department at Harvard and author of numerous novels, most recently *The Burning Girl* (2017).  
  
**Conveners  
Homi Bhabha**  
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center; Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Harvard University

 **Tim Colton**  
Chair, Canada Program Steering Committee; Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University

   
*Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center*



 

 



 

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