2024 LITERARY LIONS GALA

THank you to everyone who made the 30th Annual Literary Lions Gala a success!

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March 2, 2024

5:30-9:30pm

Keynote:
CHRIS BOHJALIAN
Venue:
Hyatt Regency Bellevue

Chris Bohjalian will be joined by a distinguished selection of Literary Lions.

About the Literary Lions Gala

Honoring a panel of 20 distinguished authors, including this year’s Keynote Chris Bohjalian, this is an evening to remember! Readers, writers, library lovers, civic leaders, and other community members will join together and raise essential funds for life changing library programs.

Come celebrate the joy of reading and magic of libraries at the 30th anniversary of the Literary Lions Gala!

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2024 Keynote: Chris Bohjalian

Bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian uses his hugely popular novels to explore compelling social and historical issues like human trafficking, domestic violence, and the Armenian genocide, as well as the more intimate challenges of marriage, parenting, and sexuality. In more than 20 books, most of which have been New York Times bestsellers, Bohjalian has cultivated a wide and devoted audience.

His breakout novel, Midwives, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Instant New York Times bestseller The Flight Attendant was praised by USA Today as an “expertly turned thriller…an assured novel about reckoning not just with some ruthless bad guys, but private sadness as well.” Bohjalian’s latest novel is the New York Times bestseller The Lioness, a blistering story of fame, race, love, and death set in a world on the cusp of great change.

“As much as I love writing (the verb), I probably love writing (the noun) even more. I doubt anyone becomes a serious novelist who doesn’t love reading: savoring paragraphs that precisely capture longing or dread or desire. Being riveted by a plot twist that is utterly surprising but, you realize, perfect, because it was inevitable.” —Chris Bohjalian

Learn more about Chris Bohjalian here.