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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Wyoming Valley native Andrew Krivak is the author of &#8220;The Sojourn,&#8221; a 2012 finalist for the National Book Award and the 2012 recipient of both the Chautauqua Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction.</p><p>Krivak will return to his birthplace to be the featured writer on March 22 at Wilkes-University as the English department hosts the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series. Krivak will hold a workshop and Q&amp;A session at 3 p.m. followed by a reading at 7 p.m. in the salon of Kirby Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.</p><p>&#8220;The Sojourn&#8221; is the story of a man who is confronted with a rigorous journey through the Italian Alps and the threat of enemy capture after he joins his brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser&#8217;s army during World War I. The book is inspired by Krivak&#8217;s family history.</p><p>Krivak is also the author of &#8220;A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life,&#8221; which is about his time in the Jesuit order.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Wilkes-Barre native and author Andrew Krivak will be the featured writer at the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/web1_AndrewKrivak.jpg</photo0><caption0>Wilkes-Barre native and author Andrew Krivak will be the featured writer at the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series. </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div></div>
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Wilkes-Barre native, author of “The Sojourn” Andrew Krivak featured writer in Wilkes University’s Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series