{"id":3433,"date":"2012-01-24T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.lib.utk.edu\/news\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2012-01-24T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:40:15","slug":"sabina-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/sabina-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabina Murray at Writers in the Library, Feb. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MurraySabina\"Sabina Murray will present a reading at UT’s Writers in the Library on Monday, February 6, at 7 p.m., in the Hodges Library auditorium.<\/p>\n

Murray is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore\u2019s Inquiry<\/em>, and Slow Burn<\/em> and two short story collections, The Caprices<\/em> (winner of the 2002 PEN\/Faulkner award) and Tales of the New World. Tales of the New World<\/em>, her most recent collection, reimagines moments in the lives of explorers from Australian Aborigines to Aztec kings. She is also a screenwriter and wrote the script for the film The Beautiful Country<\/a><\/em> (2005), which follows the story of Binh, a young Amerasian man who comes to the U.S. from Vietnam in search of the father he never knew.<\/p>\n

Murray has had plenty of international experiences to inform her writing, having lived in Australia and the Philippines for most of her childhood and teenage years.<\/p>\n

She currently directs, and teaches in, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<\/p>\n

Murray has been a Michener Fellow at UT Austin, a Bunting fellow at Radcliffe, a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, a University of Massachusetts Research and Creativity Award, and a Fred Brown Award for The Novel from the University of Pittsburgh. The Beautiful Country<\/em> was nominated for a Golden Bear, and the screenplay was nominated for an Amanda Award and an Independent Spirit Award.<\/p>\n

Read a review of Tales of the New World<\/em> on Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers and passersby<\/a> (brought to you by Humanities Tennessee).<\/p>\n

Visit www.sabinamurray.com<\/a> to read more about her work.<\/p>\n

Writers in the Library<\/a> is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the UT Department of English. For further information contact Marilyn Kallet, Director, UT Creative Writing Program (mkallet@utk.edu<\/a>), or Jeff Daniel Marion, Writer in Residence, UT Libraries (dannymar@earthlink.net<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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