November 9, 2018

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing presentsA Reading by Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and

award-winning writer Caryl PhillipsAward-winning writers next in Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series at Princeton

Photo caption 1: Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Guy MaddinPhotos credit 1: Philippe MigeatPhoto caption 2: Award-winning writer Caryl PhillipsPhotos credit 2: Courtesy of Caryl Phillips

Who/What: Reading by Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and award-winning writer Caryl Phillips, next in the 2018-19 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series pre-sented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton UniversityWhen: Wednesday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m.Where: Wallace Theater at Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton University campusFree and open to the public

(Princeton, N.J.) On Wednesday, November 14, Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker

Guy Maddin and award-winning writer Caryl Phillips will read from their work as part of the

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series of the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative

Writing. The reading, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Wallace Theater at the Lewis Arts complex

on the Princeton University campus, is free and open to the public. In response to audience feed-

back, all readings for this year’s series will move from 4:30 p.m. to a 7:30 p.m. evening time

slot.

Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker with numerous shorts and 11 feature films to his credit,

including the Emmy Award-winning ballet film Dracula - Pages From A Virgin’s Diary (2002);

The Saddest Music in the World (2003); My Winnipeg (2007); and US National Society of Film

Critics Best Experimental Film Prize-winners Archangel (1990) and The Heart of the World

(2000). He is also a member of The Order of Canada & The Order of Manitoba.

Caryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts and raised in England. He is the author of numerous books of

non-fiction and fiction. Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award, and A Dis-

tant Shore won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awards include the Martin

Luther King Memorial Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River, which was also short-listed for the

Booker Prize. He has written for the stage, television, and film, and is a contributor to newspa-

pers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Litera-

ture and holds honorary doctorates from a number of universities. He has taught at universities in

Britain, Singapore, Ghana, Sweden and Barbados and is currently Professor of English at Yale

University. His latest novel, A View of the Empire at Sunset, was published earlier this year.

Both guests will be introduced by Michael Dickman, faculty member in the Program in Creative

Writing and author of The End of the West; Flies (winner of the 2011 James Laughlin

Award); 50 American Plays, co-written with his brother, Matthew Dickman; Green Migraine;

and Brother.

The Lewis Center’s Program in Creative Writing annually presents the Althea Ward Clark W’21

Reading Series, which provides an opportunity for students, as well as all in the greater Princeton

region, to hear and meet the best contemporary writers. All readings are at 7:30 p.m. in venues in

the Lewis Arts complex and are free and open to the public. Other readings scheduled in the

2018-2019 series include:

● Layli Long Soldier and Princeton Hodder Fellow Jacob Shores-Argüello on February 6 in

the Hearst Dance Theater

● Frank Bidart and Yuri Herrera on March 6 in the Donald G. Drapkin Studio

● Han Kang and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on April 17 in the Hearst Dance Theater

The series will also include readings of new work in December and May by selected students in

Creative Writing courses and readings in May by seniors in the Program from the novels, collec-

tions of short stories, poems or translations, or screenplays written as their senior theses under

mentorship by the Creative Writing faculty.

To learn more about this event, the Program in Creative Writing, and the more than 100 other

performances, exhibitions, readings, screenings, concerts, and lectures presented each year by the

Lewis Center, most of them free, visit arts.princeton.edu.

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