An Evening with Claire Dederer: The 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature

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“Monsters is extraordinary—engaging, enraging, provocative, and brilliant. It’s like a long conversation with your smartest friend. I am buying this book for everyone I know.”—Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake and Bel Canto

The 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature will be presented to critically acclaimed memoirist, essayist, and critic Claire Dederer. Following the presentation, Dederer will participate in an illuminating conversation with award-winning author and USC Distinguished Professor of English Maggie Nelson.

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Presented by the USC Department of English in partnership with the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and USC Visions and Voices.