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SECOND ANNUAL IAAC LITERARY FESTIVAL
in collaboration with Hunter College, CUNY, 625 Park Ave, NYC
OCTOBER 22-25, 2015 |
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stewardshipreport.com
NYC Must See: Indian-American Literary Festival Oct. 22-25th
October 4, 2015
New York, N.Y. The Second Annual Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival opens this month at Hunter College.
KICK OFF
Launch of Madhur Jaffrey’s Vegetarian India.
October 22nd, 2015. 7-9 pm
Hunter College, 695 Park Ave, NYC
Tickets: $25; IAAC Members & Hunter College Students/Staff w/ID $20
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About the Author
Madhur Jaffrey is the author of many previous cookbooks-six of which have won the James Beard Award-and was named to the Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America by the James Beard Foundation. She is also an award-winning actress with numerous major motion pictures to her credit. She lives in New York City.
Madhur Jaffrey is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau ( www.rhspeakers.com).
About Vegetarian India
No one knows Indian food like Madhur Jaffrey. For more than forty years, the “godmother of Indian cooking” (The Independent on Sunday) has introduced Western home cooks to the vibrant cuisines of her homeland. Now, in Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking, the seven-time James Beard Award–winning author shares the delectable, healthful, vegetable- and grain-based foods enjoyed around the Indian subcontinent. With more than two hundred recipes, beautifully illustrated throughout, and including personal photographs from Jaffrey’s own travels, Vegetarian India is a kitchen essential for vegetable enthusiasts and home cooks everywhere.
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OPENING NIGHT
Salman Rushdie & Suketu Mehta
in Conversation
BOMBAY BOYS IN NEW YORK Moderated by Parul Sehgal
October 23rd, 2015. 7-9 pm
Auditorium 615, Hunter College, 695 Park Ave, NYC
Post-discussion Q&A & wine reception
Tickets: $50; IAAC Members & Hunter College Students/Staff w/ID $45
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BOMBAY BOYS IN NEW YORK features Booker of Booker author Salman Rushdie and Kiriyama Prize winning author Suketu Mehta in conversation about the two cities Bombay and New York. Both authors have written extensively about both cities – the fecund and the dazzle, cities which aren’t typical of either of the two countries they inhabit.
Suketu wrote Maximum City Bombay Lost & Found and is currently writing a book on New York in the same vein. Salman has referenced and set several of his novels in Bombay and his current book Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights opens in New York with a trip to Bombay.
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 Sir Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life and his latest book Two Years, Eight Months & Twenty Eight Days.
A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, Sir Salman Rushdie has received, among other honors, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the Writers’ Guild Award, the James Tait Black Prize, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes in both Britain and Germany, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, the Crossword Book Award in India, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the London International Writers’ Award, the James Joyce award of University College Dublin, the St Louis Literary Prize, the Carl Sandburg Prize of the Chicago Public Library, and a U.S. National Arts Award. |
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 Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of ‘Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,’ which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ and ‘All Things Considered.’ |
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CLOSING NIGHT
Mira Nair & Sabrina Dhawan
in Conversation
FROM PAGE TO STAGE
October 25th, 2015. 7-9 pm
Auditorium 615, Hunter College, NYC
Post discussion Q&A and wine reception. Tickets: $35; IAAC Members & Hunter College Students/Staff w/ID $30
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Mira Nair & Sabrina Dhawan in conversation: From Page to Stage
Auditorium 615, Hunter College, NYC
Post discussion Q&A and wine reception.
Filmmaker, screen-writer, producer Sabrina Dhawan made her screenwriting debut with Director Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding which won the Leon D’Oro at the Venice Film Festival and received a Golden Globe nomination. She is now writing a script for the upcoming Stage Production of Mira’s Monsoon Wedding. Mira and Sabrina will discuss the process of page to stage (and screen to stage!) as well as their amazing collaboration on both the film and the play. |
 Mira Nair is the rare prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and Independent Cinema. After several years of making documentary films, Mira Nair made a stunning entry onto the world stage with her debut feature film Salaam Bombay! (1988). Now hailed as a classic, the film has received more than 25 international awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988, the Caméra d’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Her second film, Mississippi Masala (1991) won three awards at Venice. Since, Nair made films such as The Perez Family (1993), Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), My Own Country (1998), The Laughing Club of India (1999). In 2001, Monsoon Wedding won the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, becoming one of the highest grossing foreign films of all time.
Nair then directed the Golden Globe winning Hysterical Blindness (2002). After making William Makepeace Thackeray’s epic Vanity Fair (2004), she directed a film based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s best-selling novel The Namesake (2006). This was followed by the Amelia Earhart biopic, Amelia (2009) starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere. |
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 Sabrina Dhawan graduated from Columbia University’s graduate film program in 2001 with her debut feature as screenwriter, Monsoon Wedding. Amongst other awards, it won the ‘Leon D’Oro’ at the Venice Film Festival and received a Golden Globe nomination. At Columbia, her student short Saanjh – As Night Falls won ‘Best of the Festival’ at the Palm Springs Film Festival; ‘Most Original Film’ from New Line Cinema, ‘Audience Impact’ Award at Angelus Awards, and was nominated for a Student Academy Award. |
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Jan Hus Presbyterian Church,
351 East 74th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, N.Y. 10021
The Indo-American Arts Council is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit secular arts organization passionately dedicated to promoting, showcasing and building an awareness of artists of Indian origin in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts and folk arts. |
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