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Film, Video Tiphanie Yanique: 2014 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Tiphanie Yanique: 2014 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Tiphanie Yanique appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2014-08-30.

Headings

  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Tiphanie Yanique.
  • -  Recorded on 2014-08-30.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the short story collection "How to Escape from a Leper Colony," the picture book "I Am the Virgin Islands" and the novel "Land of Love and Drowning" (Riverhead). Her writing has won the 2011 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Fiction, the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of 16 cultural figures to watch out for and by the National Book Foundation as one of the 5 Under 35. Her writing has been published in Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction and elsewhere. Yanique is also the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692220

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Tiphanie Yanique:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-30, 2014. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692220/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2014) Tiphanie Yanique:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-30. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692220/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Tiphanie Yanique:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-30, 2014. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692220/>.