Luis Alberto Urrea. Courtesy image
FLAGSTAFF — The Immigration Awareness Series program “rAn Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4 at Northern Arizona University at Prochnow Auditorium, directly south across the street from the High Country Conference Center.
The event is free and open to the public.
Urrea is the author of Devils Highway (2005), winner of the Lannan Literary Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize.
Other works include The Hummingbird’s Daughter (2006) winner of the Kiriyama Prize in Fiction, Into the Beautiful North (2010) and Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), winner of the 1999 American Book Award. In 2000, Urrea was voted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame.
The Immigration Awareness Series event is sponsored by NAU Latin American Studies, NAU–No More Deaths, College of Arts and Letters, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Comparative Cultural Studies, Global Languages and Cultures, Honors College, The Student Activities Council, and Women and Gender Studies.
Additional sponsos for this event is the Office of the Provost and the Martin-Springer Institute.
Send an email to latinamericanstudies@nau.edu, call 928-523-0064 or Click here for more information.