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Wolfe University Center Mary - Ann Wolfe Theater, WUC-100 View map Free Event
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JUDY BLUME’s twenty-five books for young readers and her four widely read novels for adults have been published in forty languages. Among her many honors, she has been named a Literary Legend by the Library of Congress, received the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, and was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year in 2023. For more than forty years, she has been a champion of intellectual freedom, working to support teachers and librarians in their fight to keep challenged books on their shelves. A Peabody Award winning documentary, Judy Blume Forever, and a major motion picture based on her iconic novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, are now streaming. In 2016, Blume and her husband founded an independent, nonprofit bookstore, Books & Books, in their hometown of Key West.

 

Established in 2010, The Lawrence A. Sanders Prize, made possible by the Lawrence Sanders Award Endowment, is given annually by the FIU Creative Writing Program to honor a writer of fiction whose work embodies wide appeal and literary excellence. This event is free and open to the public.

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FIU endorses the Florida Board of Governors' Statement of Free Expression to support and encourage full and open discourse and the robust exchange of ideas and perspectives on our campuses. In addition to supporting this legal right, we view this as an integral part of our ability to deliver a high-quality academic experience for our students, engage in meaningful and productive research, and provide valuable public service. This includes fostering civil and open dialogue in support of critical thinking in and out of the classroom, including events hosted by the university.