“The End of Drum Time”
Guest Author, Hanna Pylväinen

January 16, 2025
2:00pm CST
University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathryn A. Martin Library (KAML)
1049 University Drive

Duluth, MN 55812 

Join the library for an afternoon with Hanna Pylväinen, author of The End of Drum-Time. 

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. 

2:00 pm | Kathryn A. Martin Library 4th Floor Rotunda 

All are welcome at this event. 

This event is sponsored by the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Finlandia Foundation Northland, and the Alworth Institute.

Parking information is available at https://tps.d.umn.edu/

About the Author
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, Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author says, “Hanna Pylväinen’s novel of cultural collision in the far north is an extraordinary feat of research and imagination…”

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.  

Learn More
For more about Hanna: hannapylvainen.com

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