Speaking Engagements

V. V. Ganeshananthan is the author of Brotherless Night, which won the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Carol Shields Prize, and the 2023 Asian Prize. The novel, which is mostly set during the first decade of the Sri Lankan civil war, was also a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. She co-hosts Literary Hub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast and teaches at the University of Minnesota. She speaks frequently about the intersection of fact and fiction; depictions of conflict; diaspora communities; narrative and medicine; and the craft of writing. 

Places that have hosted V.V. Ganeshananthan: Harvard, University of Michigan, George Mason University, University of Louisville, Johns Hopkins University, Kansas State University, Villanova, Bucknell, Jaipur Literature Festival, Galle Literary Festival, Miami Book Fair, Hay Querétaro, Toronto International Festival of Authors, St. Olaf College, University of St. Thomas, Ramsey County Library, The Loft Literary Center’s Wordplay Festival, Women’s Prize Programme.

You can learn more about V.V. Ganeshananthan here and view other places she’s spoken at and read here.

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