Orion Series presents Zehra Naqvi
The Orion
Lecture Series in Fine Arts
Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:
Zehra Naqvi
Writer, poet
“Shaping Water: Finding a Form for your Writing”
11am-noon, Wed, Oct 16
Room A329, Clearihue Bldg
Presented by UVic’s Department of Writing
For more information on this lecture please email: writing@uvic.ca
About Zehra Naqvi
Zehra Naqvi is a writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She is the author of The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose (McClelland & Stewart). Zehra has written and edited for various publications internationally. Her work has been commissioned by Amnesty International and featured on CBC Radio. She is a recipient of the Bronwen Wallace Award awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Zehra holds degrees in migration studies and social anthropology from Oxford University where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Zehra’s debut poetry collection The Knot of My Tongue moves through a variety of poetic and prose forms to examine the loss of language that occurs in the aftermath of violence and displacement. Blending the personal and the communal, memory and myth, theology and tradition, the poems experiment with form in search for language and expression after loss. For her talk, Zehra will share insights from her process of moving between poetry and creative nonfiction, and how she approached the challenge of finding the right form for her book.
About the Orion Fund
Established through the generous gift of an anonymous donor, the Orion Fund in Fine Arts is designed to bring distinguished visitors from other parts of Canada—and the world—to the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Fine Arts, and to make their talents and achievements available to faculty, students, staff and the wider Greater Victoria community who might otherwise not be able to experience their work.
The Orion Fund also exists to encourage institutions outside Canada to invite regular faculty members from our Faculty of Fine Arts to be visiting artists/scholars at their institutions; and to make it possible for Fine Arts faculty members to travel outside Canada to participate in the academic life of foreign institutions and establish connections and relationships with them in order to encourage and foster future exchanges.
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