Luis Alberto Urrea, best-selling author of 13 books and a former writer in residence (1996) at UL Lafayette, will speak at a dinner Sunday and a lecture on Monday.
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Luis Alberto Urrea, best-selling author of 13 books and a former writer in residence (1996) at UL Lafayette, will speak at a dinner Sunday and a lecture on Monday.
Brought to town by the Friends of the Humanities, the Pulitzer Prize finalist will discuss a theme that runs through much of his fiction - the quest for identity as an Hispanic American - during a social and dinner at the Petroleum Club on Sunday. The social begins at 4:30 p.m. with dinner following at 5:30. Tickets are $30 for open seating and $35 for reserved seating. Call (337) 280-3212 for information or tickets.
On Monday at 3:30 p.m. Urrea will read selections from his 2004 work The Devil's Highway, a non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona Desert. The Devil's Highway won the Lannan Literary Award and was a Pulitzer and Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize finalist. The reading will take place in the Oliver Hall Auditorium and free to the public.
For more information, contact the Friends of the Humanities at [email protected] or (337) 981-7236.