Hernan Díaz won the 2018 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during a calendar year. His winning book, "In the Distance", published by Coffee House Press, tells the story of a Swedish immigrant crossing America’s western frontier in the years between the Gold Rush and the Civil War, a story that encompasses both the vast landscape and the quiet depths of one man’s suffering.

Díaz will receive the award on November 6th at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he will give a reading and participate in a roundtable and panel discussion with VCU students and the public. The event will be held in the Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303) at 7 p.m. For additional details, visit www.firstnovelist.vcu.edu/event/.

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Humanities & Sciences: English
Audience
All ( Open to the public )