A Celebration of SYSU Center for English-language Creative Writing and A Reading by Emily Perkins, 18 March

Last updated:2014-03-13

Time: 9:30AM, Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Venue: Lecture Hall 101, School of Foreign Languages Building, South Campus, Sun Yat-sen University

Program: 
09:30 - 09:50       Opening speech by Professor Chen Chunsheng, Executive Deputy Secretary and Vice President of SYSU
                             Speech by Ms. Rebecca Needham, New Zealand Consul-General in Guangzhou
09:50 - 10:05       Brief introduction of the Center by Professor Dai Fan, Director of the Center, Head of English Department
10:05 - 11:05       Reading by Emily Perkins
11:05 - 11:15       Student reading by Zou Yuwei (Names Talk), Zheng Jinqiang (Together We Will See the Rainbow), Chen Xinyi (Empty Seat)
11:15 - 11:22       Creative performance: “Itchy” by Dai Fan, Huang Yang, Chen Zhiyong
11:22 - 11:26       Children’s performance: “Three Axes” by Shenzhen Lenture Education Technology Co., Ltd.

Brief Introduction to Emily Perkins:
Emily Perkins is a writer of contemporary fiction, and the success of her first collection of stories, not her real name and other stories, established her early on as an important writer of her generation. Perkins has written novels, as well as short fiction, and her writing has won and been shortlisted for a number of significant awards and prizes. She was the 2006 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow, and she used the fellowship to work on her book, Novel About My Wife, published in 2008. She is an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award winner (2011) and her acclaimed novel The Forrests was released in 2012.

Introduction Source: New Zealand Book Council