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WSU’s Visiting Writers Series will host a reading with Chigozie Obioma, a two-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, through YouTube Live. Obioma is one of two writers in history to have all of their published books become a finalist for the prize. Obioma will do a reading from his fiction books, “The Fisherman” and “An Orchestra of Minorities” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 10. “The Fisherman,” Obioma’s first novel, was a finalist for the Man Booker prize when it came out in 2015. Following this success, his second novel “An Orchestra of Minorities” was also a finalist for the Booker...

The WSU Visiting Writers Series is holding its first event of the spring semester, a literary reading at 6 p.m. Jan. 27 on YouTube. Guest Ryka Aoki is a poet, author and performer. Her newest book, “Life From Uncommon Stars,” will be released this fall, said Chelsea Ratzlaff, event sponsor and English instructor for WSU Vancouver. Aoki also wrote a novel called “He Mele A Hilo,” which is written in Hawaiian Pidgin English, Ratzlaff said. “It’s just a really beautiful novel that’s funny and really emotionally complex,” she said.  Ratzlaff said the series welcomes noted poets a...