Colson Whitehead in conversation with Jorge Ramos

Colson Whitehead (United States) is a writer who has been recognised with the prestigious MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, and who has taught at various universities. His first novel, The Intuitionist, was a PEN / Hemingway Award winner, and also won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. With John Henry Days he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Young Lions Fiction Award. His novels The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railway won, among other awards, the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is Crook Manifesto. In conversation with Jorge Ramos.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.