Fourth annual Global Voices Sept. 15

MOUNT VERNON – A South African fiction writer and a Croatian poet will discuss their works and hold readings on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at the fourth annual Global Voices, an event featuring international writers.

The event will start at 7 p.m. in Hedges Conference Room and is free and open to the public.

Novelist and magazine writer Maxine Case hails from South Africa where she is a senior writer for the non-profit Cape Town Partnership. Her first novel, All We Have Left Unsaid, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Africa, and, jointly, the Herman Charles Bosman Award. She is a contributor to Real Simple, Reader’s Digest and O Magazine, among other publications.

Croatian poet and essayist Milos Djurdjevic is the editor of the Croatian domain at Poetry International Web, a fellow at the Ledig House in New York and the Civitiella Ranieri Center in Italy, and the author of three published volumes of poetry. DJurdjevic is also the Croatian translator of a wide range of contemporary American poetry.

Global Voices presents periodic visits to Cornell by creative writers in residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Since 1967, more than 1,000 writers from more than 115 countries have attended the IWP.