The Eleventh Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Monday, November 16th to Sunday, November 22nd 2020

Virtual Festival
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Maria Konnikova

Author, USA

Maria Konnikova is the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller The Biggest Bluff. Her previous books are the bestsellers The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Maria is a regularly contributing writer for The New Yorker whose writing has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Excellence in Science Journalism Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Maria’s writing has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. She graduated from Harvard University and received her PhD in psychology from Columbia University.

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Poker Face

  • 17th November
  • 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Beating the odds of life.
Maria Konnikova in conversation with Girish Shahane.

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