An Afternoon with Brazilian Author Milton Hatoum

Please join us for a presentation and panel discussion, with a reception following. The event will be in English.

Milton Hatoum is the Writer in Residence in Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for May 2004. He is considered by many critics to be the best living Brazilian author. His novels, _The Brothers_ and _Tale of a Certain Orient_, have received all of the highest literary prizes in his home country. An Amazonian of Lebanese descent, Hatoum writes about his native Manaus, the city in the middle of the jungle.

"Hatoum is a tough and gifted novelist: he is able simultaneously to render the richness and strangeness of the Amazonian vegetation and the melting-pot of cultures in it, and to tell a human tale that is complex and wry and occasionally terrible."--The Guardian