Writer , author of the novel A Girl Like Che Guevara, will read from her work as part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Visiting Writers Program at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.
Dovalpage will appear at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in Room 101 of Buttrick Hall on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campus. The reading is free and open to the public. Audio will be recorded for podcasting at VUCast, the website of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News Service, at .
Dovalpage, a native of Havana who now lives in Taos, N.M., has written one English and two Spanish-language novels and has a book of short stories, Por culpa de Candela y otros cuentos escandalosos, set to be published this year by Floricanto Press.
A Girl Like Che Guevera, set in 1980s-era Havana, follows a 16-year-old Cuban girl who yearns to emulate Che Guevara.
Each semester the Gertrude Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Harold S. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Visiting Writers Program at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ brings writers to campus to read from their work and visit classes.
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