The Brooklyn Book Festival, now celebrating it's 15th anniversary with an all virtual festival
, is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week.
BKBF announced TCG playwright Lynn Nottage as this year’s recipient of the Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) Award. The annual award is presented to an author whose work exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn. Past honorees have included John Ashbery, Edwidge Danticat, Pete Hamill, N.K. Jemisin, Jonathan Lethem, Lois Lowry, James McBride, Colson Whitehead, Mo Willems, and Jacqueline Woodson.
Lynn Nottage was born and raised in Brooklyn and is the first and only woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Pen/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, the Merit and Literature Award from The Academy of Arts and Letters, and many, many more. Her work has been produced widely throughout the world and has been awarded dozens of prestigious awards.
On Sunday, October 4th at 3pm, additional TCG playwrights will be featured at Care and Crisis through Theatre presented with the Whiting Foundation. Join the Brooklyn Book Festival for a discussion with Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Amy Herzog (4000 Miles), Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Sweat), and Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) – moderated by Soraya Nadia McDonald, award-winning cultural critic for The Undefeated, ESPN’s premiere platform covering race, sports, and culture — about the ways we take care of each other and ourselves during crisis, how theater can model or create those spaces for care, and the potential for care for one community to carry with it a blindness towards other communities. For more information and to attend this free event, click here to register.
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