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Faculty of Arts: Colloquium Talk (Term 1, 2016-17) – Professor Grant Hamilton on Mia Couto: the poet-scientist
2016年10月21日
下午4時至6時
馮景禧樓G24室(人文雅集)
Professor Grant Hamilton英文系
電話: 3943 7107 (葉小姐)
In this talk, Professor Hamilton looks to introduce the work of the important Mozambican writer, Mia Couto, to the Hong Kong reader. He does so by referencing his newly published co-edited collection of research on this exciting writer, titled A Companion to Mia Couto (2016) – a project that was made possible by the generous support received from the Faculty of Arts at CUHK in the form of an award of a Humanities Fellowship in 2015. An influential writer who has been recognized by many important international literary awarding bodies, Couto is presented in this talk as a significant voice in world literature. However, in making much of Couto’s continuing and serious scientific work as an environmental biologist, Professor Hamilton makes a case here for thinking of Couto’s compelling fiction as the product of a mind that marries the seemingly antagonistic worlds of the poet and the scientist.
