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Winter Words featuring Azar Nafisi

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Tue Jan 17, 2017
Aspen, CO

Date

Tue Jan 17, 2017
1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Location

Aspen, CO
Aspen Meadows Campus
Paepcke Auditorium

Contact

    [email protected]
    970.925.3122

Hosts

  1. Aspen Words

There is perhaps no one more qualified to speak about the transformative power of literature than Azar Nafisi, whose million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, told the story of a teacher’s mission to share the literary classics with students in revolutionary Iran. Her follow-up book, The Republic of Imagination, is a meditation on the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society.

Tickets go on sale November 18, 2016.

Admission Price: $25 tickets | $80 Series Pass | $60 Member Pass

There is perhaps no one more qualified to speak about the transformative power of literature than Azar Nafisi, whose million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, told the story of a teacher’s mission to share the literary classics with students in revolutionary Iran. Her follow-up book, The Republic of Imagination, is a meditation on the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society.

Tickets go on sale November 18, 2016.

Admission Price: $25 tickets | $80 Series Pass | $60 Member Pass