Novelist Kerri Sakamoto to read at UNBF
University of New Brunswick Press Release
October 24, 2003 - Award-winning novelist Kerri Sakamoto will read from her new book One Hundred Million Hearts on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
The free reading will be held at 8 p.m. at Memorial Hall. The public is welcome to attend.
One Hundred Million Hearts tells the story of a Japanese-Canadian woman who discovers her father was a kamikaze pilot.
Author of the critically acclaimed 1998 novel, The Electical Field, Ms. Sakamoto won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award. She was also nominated for the 1998 Governor General’s Award for Fiction.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, Ms. Sakamoto also earned an MA in English from New York University. She has published short stories and scripts for independent films and has written extensively on Asian North American arts.
The Nov. 4 reading is sponsored by the UNBF department of English and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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