Argentine writer Alicia Steimberg will be at UNLV on Nov. 2 to read from her novel Call Me Magdalena, which won the prestigious Planeta Prize for best novel in the Spanish language in 1992 and recently was translated into English.

The reading, which is free and open to the public, is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. in Frank and Estella Beam Hall, Room 241. The reading is being sponsored by UNLV's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing International program.

Steimberg is the author of seven novels and two collections of short stories. A well-known literary translator, she has served as director of the book for the government of Argentina and in numerous capacities around the world as an active voice for literary culture and the rights of women. Call Me Magdalena is a story about the quest of a young Argentine woman to understand her history and her heritage.

UNLV's Master of Fine Arts program also is a cosponsor of a reading by poet Gerald Stern, which will be held Nov. 9 at the Jewel Box Theatre in the Clark County Public Library at 1401 E. Flamingo Road. The reading is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Stern's books of poetry include This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award; Bread Without Sugar, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; The Red Coal, which received the Melville Caine Award from the Poetry Society of America; and Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, which also was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

His honors include the Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Award; the Bess Hokin Award for Poetry; the Ruth Lilly Prize; four National Endowment for the Arts grants; the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts; the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review; and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Stern also worked for many years as a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Additional sponsors of Stern's reading include the Nevada Humanities Committee and the Clark County Public Library, which is part of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.

For additional information about the upcoming events, call the UNLV English department at 895-4366.