A Taste of JLF@Boulder: A Jaipur Literature Festival Author Panel: The Long Road Home from War

Experience a Taste of JLF@Boulder

The Long Road Home from War:
A Conversation Among Colorado's  Award Winning Authors: Helen Thorpe, Laird Hunt, Ami Dayan
Moderated by Mark Williams
~ Free Admission ~ Registration Required

Continuing the celebration and conversation of international literature, JLF Colorado presents a compelling panel from JLF@Boulder 2015.
Booksigning to follow program, Boulder Bookstore will be on hand with books for purchase.

 
Helen Thorpe is an award-winning journalist who lives in Denver, Colorado. Her magazine work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and 5280. Her first book, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, published in 2009, won the Colorado Book Award and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post. Her second book, Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War, published in 2014, was named the number one nonfiction book of the year by Time, and acclaimed by The New York Times: “Through minute detail —Thorpe achieves a staggering intimacy with her subjects."

Laird Hunt is the author of six novels, including most recently, Neverhome, published in 2014, for which he received the inaugural Grand Prix de la Littérature Américaine. Laird's writings, reviews, and translations have appeared in the US and abroad in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Irish Times, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, Grand Street, and The Believer.  He lives with his family in Boulder, Colorado and teaches at the University of Denver, where he edits the Denver Quarterly. 

Ami Dayan is a professional theatre director, actor and playwright. His work (from one-person political-dramas, to full-scale musicals) has been commissioned by The Denver Center Theatre Company, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Roe Green Foundation, and The America-Israel Culture Foundation and produced in Europe, Israel, and the US - including four celebrated Off-Broadway productions.
 

Mark Williams is the former young Air Force pilot around whom Ami Dayan based his powerful play Reason. After leaving the Air Force and a career as a professional pilot, Mark received a Master in Buddhist Studies from Naropa University. Mark now works and teaches meditation at Gaia (formerly Gaiam TV).

Visit our website, jaipurliteraturefestival.org/boulder, to learn more about JLF@Boulder, Colorado.
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