Panel Announcement
Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers Workshop 2026
Malla Hotel, Kathmandu
4 June 2026
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Kierkegaard famously observed that “life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” The same can certainly be true of a literary “career”. Despite our best laid plans, sometimes the way our work is perceived, assigned “genre” and categorized (as, for example “literary” versus “commercial”) is just not up to us. I’ll be looking at some ideas that may be helpful as we attempt to create career paths for ourselves as writers.
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of nine acclaimed novels, including The Plot, The Latecomer, and The Sequel. Her novel You Should Have Known was adapted by David E. Kelley into the HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. Her bestselling novel Admission was adapted into a feature film starring Tina Fey.
Her other works include The Devil and Webster, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River, and A Jury of Her Peers. Beyond fiction, she has published a poetry collection, The Properties of Breath, and a middle-grade novel, Interference Powder.
With her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon, she adapted James Joyce’s The Dead into an immersive theatre production staged by the Irish Repertory Theatre. Korelitz is also the creator of BOOKTHEWRITER, which hosts “Pop-Up Book Groups” connecting readers and authors.
She lives in New York City.
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