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Celebration of Scholarly, Intellectual and Creative Achievements

This LibGuide features the work and publications of faculty, administrative and academic staff, researchers, postdocs and students.
The City and Writer: A Global Gathering was hosted in the NYUAD Blue Hall on March 6, 2024.
The evening featured a diverse lineup of award-winning writers who celebrated and shared their writing.
The slideshow below showcases some of the posters designed for the event.
Posters were designed by: Erin Collins, Marta Pienkosz, Goffredo Puccetti and Shahd Nigim.
Design was led and curated by Goffredo Puccetti.

 

 

 

Posters featured the works of NYU Abu Dhabi’s Nathalie Handal (USA-France) Award-winning poet and curator of “The City and the Writer,”as well as Alain Mabanckou (Congo-France-USA) Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire; Amanda Michalopoulo (Greece) Academy of Athens Prize winner; Carlo Lucarelli (Italy) Best-selling novelist and television presenter; Angie Cruz (Dominican-American) Gold Medal Latino Book Award winner; Rana Kazkaz (Syria-USA), Award-winning filmmaker; David Henry Hwang (American) Tony Award winner; Isabella Hammad (British) Granta Best of Young British Novelists; Fernanda Trías (Uruguay) Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize winner; Shahad Al-Rawi (Iraq) Edinburgh Prize for First Fiction; Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) Nobel Prize winner; Rachel Holmes (United Kingdom), award-winning biographer.