Wednesday, January 18, 2012

first stop: Dubai!

airport lounging at Dubai, waiting for my connection to delhi on to Jaipur Literature Festival !

and the programme is a delight, with Indian literary charmer Chandrahas, whom I met at the IWP at Iowa, and Katie Kitamura, a super chic new yorker lady. Not to mention the talks by Steven Pinker, Salman Rushdie, Richard Dawkins, Ondaatje justo to name a few, oh and the parties ;)

JANUARY 20TH 3:45pm.
'Writing the New Latin America'

Pola Oloixarac in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury.



JANUARY 23TH 11:15. 'First Person Feminine'

Readings Shubnum Khan, Pola Oloixarac and Katie Kitamura.


i'll be tweeting pics at @poliamida beijos!

6 comments:

EMILIANO said...

gran souvenir!

Paula Maffia said...

RICHARD DAWKINS!!! Seguro tiene algún comentario interesantísimo para hacerte sobre LTS!!!

Besos, mi tigress hindu goddess

Vanessa Alanís said...

the parties!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Pola, tienes un sorprendente parecido con la secretaria de Tatcher en Iron Lady, sabías?

Mohit said...

Pola, que tal? Greetings from Dubai. Its an awesome coincidence that I was reading "Conditions for the revolution" & follow ur blog to c ur in Dubai. Wish u were in the city; wudve liked to meet. Wanted to tell u what a fascinating story "conditions..." is. I lovely it. Im so glad I bought Granta Los Mejores Narradores Jovenes En Espanol. Wud definitely be reading more of ur writings. Adios amiga!

carmen - juegos de mario said...

Fabulous! Nice souvenirs.