Creative Writing Reading Series ft. Kevin Jared Hosein

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Location: 300 O'Shaughnessy Hall, Sojourner Truth Commons (View on map )

Kevin Jared Hosein, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, is pictured above book covers for his novels "Hungry Ghosts," "The Beast of Kukuyo," and "The Repenters."  The flyer details an event with Hosein at the University of Notre Dame in Sojourner Truth Commons, 300 O'Shaughnessy Hall, on November 4, 2025, from 5:00-6:30 PM. It also includes praise for "Hungry Ghosts" from Hilary Mantel and The New York Times.

The Creative Writing Series and the Iniative on Race and Resilence invites you to an evening with Kevin Jared Hosein. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore will be on site with copies of the author's books available for purchase.

Kevin Jared Hosein is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, fiction winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It had also been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, regionally in 2015 and overall in 2018.   His previous novels include The Repenters, which was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and The Beast of Kukuyo, which received a Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature. Both were also longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. He has been published in numerous anthologies and outlets, including Esquire, Wasafiri, Lightspeed, Granta, BBC Radio 4 and Perspective. He lives in Trinidad and Tobago. 

Co-sponsors

Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience