*“The Story Behind the Sandcastle 
Girls: The Centennial of the 
Slaughter You Know Next to Nothing 
About.”
*By Chris Bohjalian, Award Winning 
Novelist and Vermont Resident

Thursday, April 2, 2015
3:30-5:30 PM
UVM Davis Center, Livak Ballroom, 
Room 417/419

Where do fact and fiction meet in a 
work of historical fiction? In 
Bohjalian's slide show, he will be 
sharing why he structured his novel 
of the Armenian Genocide, "The 
Sandcastle Girls," as a love story 
-- and where his personal family 
history fits in. Many of the images 
he will share come from his travels 
through the Middle East, Turkey, 
and Armenia.

Chris Bohjalian is the author of 17 
books, including ten /New York 
Times/ bestsellers.  His work has 
been translated into roughly 30 
languages and three have become 
movies. His awards include, but are 
not limited to, the ANCA Freedom 
Award for his work educating 
Americans about the Armenian 
Genocide and the ANCA Arts and 
Letters Award for /The Sandcastle 
Girls/.

His books have been chosen as Best 
Books of the Year by /the 
Washington Post, the St. Louis 
Post-Dispatch, the Hartford 
Courant, the Milwaukee 
Journal-Sentinel, Publishers 
Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus 
Reviews, Bookpage,/ and Salon. He 
has received numerous awards, and 
has written for a wide variety of 
magazines and newspapers, including 
the /Washington Post,/ 
/Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest,/ 
and the /Boston Globe Sunday 
Magazine/.  He has been a weekly 
columnist in Vermont for the 
/Burlington Free Press/ since 
February 1992.

April 24, 2015 marks the 
one-hundred-year anniversary of the 
beginning of the Armenian genocide 
on which Chris Bohjalian’s deeply 
moving and personal 15th novel, 
/The Sandcastle Girls/, is based.


-- 

Mary Lou Shea
Program Coordinator
Global & Regional Studies
Miller Center for Holocaust Studies
Humanities Center
94 University Pl, Old Mill A506
Burlington, VT05405
Tel: 802-656-1096