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The New Yorker Festival | Home Truths: Writing About Family

With Tessa Hadley, Hisham Matar, Akhil Sharma, and Gary Shteyngart. Moderated by Cressida Leyshon.

Tessa Hadley is a novelist and a professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. She has contributed numerous short stories to the magazine and is the author of six novels, most recently “The Past,” which won the Hawthornden Prize, and two collections of short stories. Her book “Sunstroke and Other Stories” was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007, and she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize this year. “The Past,” published in 2015, is about four grownup siblings gathering for a reunion in the English countryside.

Hisham Matar is a Libyan-American writer and the author of two novels, “In the Country of Men,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and “Anatomy of a Disappearance.” His books have been translated into numerous languages, and he was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. His memoir, “The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between,” was published in July.

Akhil Sharma is a fiction writer and an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. His first novel, “An Obedient Father,” won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award for début fiction, and his second, “Family Life,” received the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. “A Mistake,” an excerpt from “Family Life,” ran in the January 20, 2014, issue of the magazine.

Gary Shteyngart is the author of the novels “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” which won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction; “Absurdistan”; and “Super Sad True Love Story,” which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. His memoir, “Little Failure,” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

Gramercy Theatre
127 E. 23rd St.

Tickets $45











When: Sat., Oct. 8, 2016 at 1:00 pm

With Tessa Hadley, Hisham Matar, Akhil Sharma, and Gary Shteyngart. Moderated by Cressida Leyshon.

Tessa Hadley is a novelist and a professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. She has contributed numerous short stories to the magazine and is the author of six novels, most recently “The Past,” which won the Hawthornden Prize, and two collections of short stories. Her book “Sunstroke and Other Stories” was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007, and she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize this year. “The Past,” published in 2015, is about four grownup siblings gathering for a reunion in the English countryside.

Hisham Matar is a Libyan-American writer and the author of two novels, “In the Country of Men,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and “Anatomy of a Disappearance.” His books have been translated into numerous languages, and he was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. His memoir, “The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between,” was published in July.

Akhil Sharma is a fiction writer and an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. His first novel, “An Obedient Father,” won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award for début fiction, and his second, “Family Life,” received the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. “A Mistake,” an excerpt from “Family Life,” ran in the January 20, 2014, issue of the magazine.

Gary Shteyngart is the author of the novels “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” which won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction; “Absurdistan”; and “Super Sad True Love Story,” which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. His memoir, “Little Failure,” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

Gramercy Theatre
127 E. 23rd St.

Tickets $45

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