Students, faculty, and community members filled the Centrum on Thursday, March 15, to hear from two National Book Awards finalists. This year marked the 13th annual National Book Awards at Concordia. Since 2006, Concordia has been inviting National Book Award finalists and winners to campus each spring. This year, historical nonfiction authors Erica Armstrong Dunbar…
This week, authors Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Nancy MacLean will join host John Ydstie, a 1974 Concordia alum and National Public Radio correspondent, at Concordia College for the 13th annual National Book Awards at Concordia event. “We decided as a liberal arts college that one of the best things we can do every year is…
Anand Gopal shares the stories of three Afghans – a Taliban commander, a US-backed warlord, and a village housewife in his book No Good Men Among the Living: America, The Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes. In his book, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Gopal shares the stories of people…
Concordia features fiction and nonfiction finalists Once each year, the people of Concordia College gather together to talk about the best books in the nation. The occasion is the annual National Book Awards at Concordia, which this year will bring acclaimed authors Rachel Kushner and Wendy Lower to campus. The authors will be on campus…
When Nikky Finney, the 2012 National Book Award winner for poetry, was asked why coming to the National Book Awards at Concordia was so important to her, she simply shook her head, pointed to the long snaking line of fans eagerly waiting behind me to meet her, and whispered, “That.” Concordia hosted its seventh annual…