Travel Writer to Present at UW April 17 |
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April 11, 2007 -- The University of Wyoming Creative Writing Program will host two presentations with internationally-known travel writer and novelist Pico Iyer Tuesday, April 17.
Iyer, a British-born author of seven books and a contributor to Time, Harper's and National Geographic, will join Mark Jenkins, a Laramie adventure author and global correspondent for Rodale Press, in a symposium, "The Trials of the Travel Writer," from noon-1 p.m. in the Wyoming Union Family Room. Travel writer Vicki Lindner will moderate.
The visiting writer also will read and talk about his work in the College of Business auditorium at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Specially-priced books from the University Bookstore will be available and a reception will follow the presentation.
Iyer in 1982 joined Time as a writer on world affairs after graduating from Oxford and Harvard universities. He writes up to 100 articles a year on subjects as diverse as jet lag, Buddhist monasteries, Cuba and Bolivian suburbs.
He has published two novels, "Cuba and the Night," and "Abandon: A Romance," but is best known for his essay collections and travel narratives including "Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East," "The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto," "Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places in the World," and "Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreign."
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The University of Wyoming Creative Writing Program will host two presentations with internationally-known travel writer and novelist Pico Iyer Tuesday, April 17. (Courtesy Photo)
Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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