Jaipur Literature Festival

JLF@ Boulder 2016 promises to be just as exhilarating as last year. An exciting lineup of authors and artists coming or this year’s program - here’s a sampling:

• Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction.

• Her Majesty the Royal Queen Mother of Bhutan, Ashi Dorjewangmo, a leader passionate aboutliterature, literacy, and the environment, author of Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait ofBhutan.

• David Goulson, conservationist and leading authority on bees, author of A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees.

• Michael Patrick MacDonald, renowned activist against violence and crime in the U.S., author of All Souls and Easter Rising.

• Fiction best sellers Thrity Umrigar, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Margaret Coel

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whose The Black Swan was named one of the 12 most influential books since World War II

• Ayad Akhtar, winner of he 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama,

• Anne Waldman, renowned poet, performer, cultural/political activist, recipient of the American Book Award’s Lifetime Achievement.

• Manuel Ramos, Colorado native son and award-winning author of Chicano-noir mystery novels

Wow! Check out the 60+ authors, musicians and artists who are coming for the 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival @Boulder @

https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/boulder/speakers-2016/

With your enthusiast participation, we look forward to another

wonderful Festival of Ideas in Boulder this September!