Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Jamil Jan Kochai

On Thursday, October 13 at 5:15 pm in Weis Cinema, National Book Award finalist Jamil Jan Kochai will read from his work. Introduced by writer and Bard College faculty member Wyatt Mason, the reading will be followed by a moderated Q&A. 

Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories and 99 Nights in Logar, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, the O. Henry Prize Stories 2018, and the Best American Short Stories. Kochai was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded the Henfield Prize for Fiction. Currently, he is a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a writer in residence at Bard, where he is a senior fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center.

You may also see Jamil Jan Kochai and Wyatt Mason in conversation on Friday, October 14, at 3:45 pm at the Hannah Arendt Center 14th Annual Fall Conference. 

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Download: KOCHAI, _Occupational Hazards,_ The New Yorker.pdf

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema

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