Special Events
The Alworth Institute occasionally hosts or co-sponsors events that do not fit into its other categories of programs.
The End of Drum Time
Thursday, January 16 - 2:00 pm - KAM Library 4th Floor Rotunda
Presented by Hanna Pylväinen,
Author and 2024 Finlandia Foundation National Lecturer of the Year
Hanna Pylväinen will take attendees through her process of researching and writing The End of Drum-Time, and will share a reading from the book.
Hanna Pylväinen is the author of The End of Drum-Time, a 2023 finalist for the National Book Award for fiction. About her story set in the 1851 world of Sámi reindeer herders, religion, beliefs, faith and love. Hanna’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and Harper’s Magazine. She has taught writing at Princeton and Virginia Commonwealth University, and is currently a member of the fiction faculty of the Warren Wilson College Low-Residency MFA Program. She earned a B.A. at Mount Holyoke College and M.F.A. in fiction at the University of Michigan. Hanna has received many awards, fellowships and residences. She lives in Philadelphia. She is also the 2024 Finlandia Foundation National Lecturer of the Year. For more about Hanna: hannapylvainen.com. For more about Finlandia Foundation: FinlandiaFoundation.org