The Fourteenth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Wednesday, October 25th to Sunday, October 29th 2023

Online : 25 - 26 Oct
On ground : 27 - 29 Oct

Dave Eggers

Author, United States of America

Dave Eggers is an American novelist and journalist. His books, include The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What, winner of France’s Prix Médicis Etranger. He is the founder of McSweeney’s Publishing and co-founder of Voice of Witness, a book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises. He also co-founded 826 Valencia, a youth writing center which has inspired 75 similar programmes around the world. He has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Eyes On You

  • 10th November
  • 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Big tech and the loss of human agency
Dave Eggers in conversation with Malavika Jayaram

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