2025 Hamid Ismailov American tour
Uzbekistan’s most famous author in exile, Hamid Ismailov, is touring the United States this fall to promote his newest book in English, the National Book Award finalist We Computers: A Ghazal Novel.
Most of these events are free and open to the public. A few require registration or a ticket. Visit the links to learn more.
Oct. 29, 6:00 pm New York, NY – Words Without Borders gala – https://wordswithoutborders.org/events/the-2025-words-without-borders-gala/
Nov. 4, 5:15 pm Northfield, MN – Carleton College, with Adeeb Khalid and Shelley Fairweather-Vega – https://www.carleton.edu/calendar/?eId=usGB
Nov 9, 6:00 pm San Francisco, CA – The Sycamore, happy hour and reading with Shelley Fairweather-Vega – https://thesycamoresf.com/events
Nov. 10, 12:00 pm Palo Alto, CA – Stanford University, with Shelley Fairweather-Vega – https://dlcl.stanford.edu/events/we-computers
Nov. 12, 4:30 pm New Haven, CT – Yale University, with Shelley Fairweather-Vega – https://macmillan.yale.edu/europe/central-asia-initiative/events/2025-11-12/cai-we-computers-book-talk-hamid-ismailov-and
Nov. 13, 7:00 pm Boston, MA – Brookline Booksmith with Shelley Fairweather-Vega and Sunil Sharma – https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-11-13/hamid-ismailov-and-shelley-fairweather-vega-sunil-sharma
Nov. 14, 4:30 pm South Bend, IN – University of Notre Dame with Shelley Fairweather-Vega – https://asia.nd.edu/events/2025/11/14/presentation-of-hamid-ismailovs-new-novel-we-computers/
Nov. 17, 4:30 pm Swarthmore, PA – Swarthmore College with Shelley Fairweather-Vega – https://swatcentral.swarthmore.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D1315322843
Nov. 18, 7:00 pm New York, NY and online – National Book Awards Finalist Reading at NYU Skirball Center – https://as.nyu.edu/departments/cwp/reading-series/FALL-2025/2025-national-book-awards-reading.html
Nov. 19, 8:00 pm New York, NY and online – National Book Awards ceremony – https://www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/
Nov. 20, 7:30 pm Washington, D.C. – ASEEES convention: Celebrating Central Asian and Southeast European Literature in Translation with Turkoslavia (conference registration required): https://aseees.org/convention/2025-convention/
Nov. 22 Miami, FL – Miami Book Fair – https://www.miamibookfair.com/