Tauheed ashraf | 15,980 | 661 | 1,208 | (3.8) | 2 | 0 | Greg Mortenson was born in 1957 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. From 1958 - 1973, he lived on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania where his father, Dempsey, co-founded the teaching hospital, Kilimanjaro Christian medical Center (KCMC), and where his mother, Jerene, founded the International School Moshi. After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1977 - 1979, Mortenson graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1983 with an Associate Degree in Nursing and a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry. He is the co-founder of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute and founder of Pennies for Peace, and is the co-author of the #1 New York Times best-seller, Three Cups of Tea, which has won several awards including Time Magazine's Asia Book of the Year. Mortenson is a humanitarian and has dedicated his life to promote education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he has established over 78 schools. In 2009, Pakistan's government awarded Mortenson Pakistan's highest civil award, the Sitara-e-Pakistan ("Star of Pakistan"). Mortenson has received many other awards including National Award for Citizen Diplomacy in 2008, Rotary International Paul Harris Award in 2007, and Red Cross (Montana) "Humanitarian of the Year" in 2005. As of 2009, Mortenson has also received 10 honorary doctorates. Mortenson is married to Dr. Tara Bishop, a clinical psychologist. They have two children. — biografia da Tre tazze di te … (altro) |
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Greg Mortenson ha 27 eventi trascorsi. (show)  READING: Charles Foran, Lee Henderson, Diane Schoemperlen and Kim Thúy Writers Charles Foran, Lee Henderson, Diane Schoemperlen and Kim Thúy read from their latest works. Alissa York hosts. Charles Foran is an award-winning journalist and the author of 10 books, including four previous novels. His biography Mordecai: The Life and Times won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Literary Nonfiction and the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award. Foran presents Planet Lolita. Told in the voice of a bi-racial girl and the language of social media, it is a riveting novel of desires and consequences in the unfolding digital age in Hong Kong.
Lee Henderson is the author of the award-winning short story collection The Broken Record Technique. He is a contributing editor to the arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the UK, and has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals. His first novel, The Man Game, won the BC Book Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Henderson presents his latest novel, The Road Narrows as You Go, a bright, rollicking, unflinching portrait of the 1980s and of a young woman struggling to find her place.
Diane Schoemperlen has published several collections of short fiction and three novels. Her short story collection The Man of My Dreams was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Book Award. In 2008, she received the Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Schoemperlen presents By the Book: Stories and Pictures, a sequel to her Governor General’s Award-winning Forms of Devotion, in which she pieces together fragments from old encyclopedias in the form of verbal and visual collage, breathing new life into the old forgotten texts.
Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. Her debut novel, Ru, won the Governor General’s Award for French-Language Fiction, and the English edition was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thúy presents Mãn, a mystery about a woman who, upon discovering that she is a natural chef, creates dishes that are suffused with memory and emotion.
Alissa York’s internationally acclaimed novels include Mercy, Effigy (shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize) and, most recently, Fauna (shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award). She is also the author of the short fiction collection Any Given Power, from which stories have won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in such periodicals as The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Eighteen Bridges and Canadian House and Home. York has lived all over Canada and now makes her home in Toronto with her husband, artist Clive Holden.
Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 5:00 PM Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay West. Toronto M5J 2G8
Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (altro)
 READING: Julie Angus, Kim Thúy and Kathleen Winter Writers Julie Angus, Kim Thúy and Kathleen Winter read from and discuss their latest works. Ben McNally will host. Julie Angus is a molecular biologist, adventurer, writer and photographer. She is the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland, and for her explorations she received National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year award. Angus has written for publications including The Globe and Mail, National Post and enRoute. She has authored three books and her photography has appeared in numerous magazines. Angus presents Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World, in which she travels the Mediterranean to unlock the secrets of this important fruit, resulting in a fascinating history and biography of the olive.
Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. Her debut novel, Ru, won the Governor General’s Award for French-Language Fiction, and the English edition was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thúy presents Mãn, a mystery about a woman who, upon discovering that she is a natural chef, creates dishes that are suffused with memory and emotion.
Kathleen Winter's debut novel, Annabel, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the three biggest fiction prizes in Canada. It won the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award and an Independent Literary Award, and was a 2014 Canada Reads selection. Her first story collection, boYs, also won numerous Canadian awards. At our Biblioasis anniversary event, she presents The Freedom in American Songs, her new story collection about modern loneliness, small-town gay teenagers, catastrophic love, inappropriate laughter and the holiness of ordinary life. At the Festival, Winter presents both the story collection and her first work of non-fiction, Boundless, which was recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. It is a powerful homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North.
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 7:30 PM Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5J 2G8
Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (altro)
Non-Fiction Book Club Greg Mortenson, Tre tazze di te.Three Cups of Tea:One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Join us as we discuss this best-selling book. It is an astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to promote education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. (booksense)… (altro)
Union Mills Readers Group
NC State Convocation 2009 featuring Greg Mortenson Greg Mortenson parla di Tre tazze di te.This year’s NC State Convocation 2009 speaker is Greg Mortenson, bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time. The book was this summer’s reading project for incoming students. Mortenson’s topic will be “Promoting Peace Through Education.” The Libraries has obtained a substantial (though limited) number of seats to accommodate Friends of the Library members. If you would like to join us at the RBC Center on Monday, August 17th, at 6:30 p.m., please call Sara Hassell at the Friends office at 919-515-2841 or drop her an email at sara_hassell@ncsu.edu. Parking is free—and you can enter at the building on the VIP side near the Hurricanes office. Pennies for Peace The University will also use this opportunity to raise money for the important work that Greg Mortenson is doing. In addition to hearing Greg speak, we’ll all also get an opportunity to inspire action and help make a difference, personally making an impact on world issues such as poverty and lack of education through something that most people consider valueless—our pennies. We would like to encourage you to collect your pennies and bring them with you to the talk. You’ll see penny deposits around the venue—just bring your collection in plastic Ziplock bags, bottle—jars, whatever you may choose—and Mortenson’s Pennies for Peace program will put them to good use building community-based schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Your spare change can open the door to literacy and give hope half a world away. In these countries, even a small contribution can be significant. * 1 Penny = a pencil * 15 Pennies = one notebook * $20 = one student’s supplies/year * $600 = one teacher’s salary/year * $5,000 = support for existing school/year * $50,000 = one school building and support for 5 years (guyalice)… (altro) Dove: 1400 Edwards Mill Rd Raleigh, NC 27607-3624
Book Discussion Group Greg Mortensen, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time.In Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time , Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, recount the journey that led Mortenson from a failed 1993 attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to successfully establish schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils, rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to promote peace with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote communities in central Asia. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time. (From www.threecupsoftea.com) (eenerd)… (altro)
Evening Book Group: "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson
Greg Mortenson signs Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, Tre tazze di te.Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is extremely excited to present Greg Mortenson as he signs his wonderful, world-changing book Three Cups of Tea!!!**PLEASE NOTE*** Due to Mr. Mortenson's very busy schedule, he will only be able to sign books until 2:30pm. Please plan accordingly and stop by early!About the Author: Greg Mortenson is the co-founder (with Dr. Jean Hoerni) and Executive Director of nonprofit Central Asia Institute. Since a 1993 climb on Pakistan's K2, he has dedicated his life to promote community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson is also founder of Pennies For Peace and co-author of the #1 New York Times best-seller, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School At A Time. (booksense)… (altro)
Malibu Book Group discusses Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, Tre tazze di te.Malibu Book Group meets to discuss Greg Mortenson's best-selling life-changing book Three Cups of Tea. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend! (booksense)
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