Life at the I-House

As a follow up to our successful Fall debut of our Conversations About World Affairs Series, the International House would like to cordially invite you to join us for the next program featuring Suketu Mehta, world renowned author and finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize Award. Mehta's talk will focus on his experiences and his award-winning book, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.

Now, I know you may be wondering: Who is Suketa Mehta? Where is Bombay? What was Lost and then Found? and Why should I take time out of my day to listen to his talk? These are all great questions but to obtain the answers you don't want to miss this program. The program will take place, Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 7pm in the International House Great Room.

Born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York he is a New York based author whose works have won the Kiriyama Prize, the Hutch Crossword Award, a finalist spot for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler, and has been featured on NPR's 'Fresh Air'.

Mehta is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. He has also written an original screenplay for 'The Goddess,' a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner, and 'Mission Kashmir', a Bollywood movie.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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