2024 Festival:
October 21–27

Elif Batuman

(UNITED STATES)

ELIF BATUMAN was a Pulitzer Prize-finalist for her first novel, The Idiot, which was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She joins the Festival with the acclaimed novel’s sequel, Either/Or—an instant New York Times bestseller. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. (UNITED STATES)