University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Media Relations UNH Publications and Documents 10-26-2006 Award-Winning Writer Ha Jin Reads At UNH Nov. 3 Lori Wright Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/news Recommended Citation Wright, Lori, "Award-Winning Writer Ha Jin Reads At UNH Nov. 3" (2006). UNH Today. 979. https://scholars.unh.edu/news/979 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the UNH Publications and Documents at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Media Relations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Award-Winning Writer Ha Jin Reads At UNH Nov. 3 9/18/17, 155 PM Award-Winning Writer Ha Jin Reads At UNH Nov. 3 Contact: Lori Wright 603-862-0574 UNH Media Relations October 26, 2006 DURHAM, N.H. -- The University of New Hampshire English Department is proud to present a reading by prize-winning author Ha Jin as part of its 2006-2007 Writers Series Friday, November 3, 2006, at 6 p.m. in Murkland Hall, room 115, on the Durham campus. Jin’s reading is free and open to the public. Ha Jin emigrated from China in the early 1990s. He was on scholarship at Brandeis University when the 1989 Tiananmen incident happened and remained in the United States after earning his Ph.D. in 1992. His first book of poems, Between Silences, was published in 1990. Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won a number of awards for his writing, including the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999). Many of his short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthologies, and his collection Under The Red Flag (1997) won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, while Ocean of Words (1996) has been awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award. The novel War Trash (2004), set in the Korean War, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Jin currently teaches at Boston University. Directions and a university campus map can be found at www.unh.edu/welcome/visitingunh.html. Questions can be directed to the UNH English Department at (603) 862-1313. http://www.unh.edu/delete/news/cj_nr/2006/october/lw27hajin.cfm@type=n.html Page 1 of 1.