This event is organized by KHORLO, Columbia University’s Tibetan Student Group.
Speaker: Pema Bhum, Co-Founder, Latse Project
Moderator: Kristina Dy-Liacco, Tibetan Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Pema Bhum is one of the most respected authors writing in the Tibetan language today. He has published two memoirs of the Cultural Revolution, Six Stars with a Crooked Neck, and Dran tho rdo ring ma. His short stories and essays have appeared in Words Without Borders, and the anthologies Old Demons, New Deities, and The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays, and have been translated into French, Polish, and Spanish. His new work, The Rainbow Path of Many Hues, is his first novel, and was published earlier this year by Latse Project with Tibet Times.
Pema Bhum served as Director of Latse Library for nearly two decades before its closure in 2020; he co-founded the Latse Project later that year. He also currently teaches Tibetan language at Northwestern University and Stanford University.
Discussion and reading will be followed by a book-signing. Print copies will be available for purchase. Refreshments will be provided.
Hybrid event. In-person location: International Affairs Building, Room 918.