Tuesday, March 3, 2020 | 5 PM – 6:30 PM
Escaler Hall
Ateneo de Manila University
The Department of English of the School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University invites you to the Fr. Henry Lee Irwin, SJ Memorial Lecture on March 3, 2020, 5:00-6:30 p.m., at the Escaler Hall. This year’s lecture is “Manananggal Terrorizes the Ateneo: Fiction vs. the Apocalypse” by author Jessica Zafra.
Admission is free. RSVP 8426-6001 (loc. 5300) or email lsanchez@ateneo.edu.
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In the lead-up to her writing workshop at the Ateneo de Manila, Zafra talks about books in an age of mass distraction. She details her writing practice, recounts the true stories behind her fiction, and explains how writing is a survival skill.
Zafra is a fictionist and TV presenter as well as ex-columnist and talk radio host. Best known for the bestselling book series Twisted, she was the acerbic voice of a generation that grew up in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Aside from Twisted, her books include Manananggal Terrorizes Manila (1992), The 500 People You Meet in Hell (2006), The Stories So Far (2014), and Twisted Travels: Central Europe (2018). She has won three Palancas for her fiction and a National Book Award for Twisted. She continues to attract a large, somewhat emotional following.
Zafra is this year’s recipient of the Fr. Henry Lee Irwin, SJ Chair in Creative Writing. The chair was instituted by former students of Father Irwin in memory of his work as a professor of English, theater, and rhetoric at the Ateneo de Manila.
Copies of The Collected Stories of Jessica Zafra, published in 2019 by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, will be sold at the venue.
