时间：10月15日 星期三晚上7:00-8:30

地点：丽泽D106

题目：On Writing: The Craft of Fiction

演讲人：Mr. Alex Doubinin

Mr. Alex Doubinin was born and raised in San Francisco California, but has traveled far and wide. The last place he lived in the United States was Iowa, where he did his MFA in creative writing, with a concentration in fiction, at the Iowa Writers'' Workshop. His thesis was a collection of short stories with settings as varied as the city of St Petersburg in Russia, a bullring in Mexico, a Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. He has lived in several foreign countries including Russia, Colombia, the Philippines and Vietnam and has visited over 30 more. I speak three languages: English, Russian, and Spanish. Now, he is happy to call Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai home while he teaches and works on a novel. The story is about two Americans caught on opposite sides of a web of corruption and intrigue in the wild west of Asia: Cambodia.

演讲内容简介：

The lecture will introduce the elements of fiction writing and include a reading of some original, creative work: a selection from the novel Mr. Alex Doubinin is currently working on about expatriates in Cambodia.