The Office of Community and Multicultural Development (CAMD) warmly invites you
to "The Joy Talk," a special evening with author Karen Tei Yamashita. The event will take
place on Wednesday, April 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Kemper Auditorium.
Yamashita is an American fiction writer, playwright, literary scholar, and recent recipient of the National Book Award for literary achievement. For her "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters," Yamashita joins prior awardees Toni Morrison, Isabel Allende, Don Delillo, and Maxine Hong Kingston—the only other Asian American author to
have earned this singular honor.