World Literature Lecture Series

Boulder Bookstore and the University of Colorado at Boulder Present: World Literature Lecture Series, 2026-2027

Join us for a series of lectures on authors from around the world, presented by faculty from CU Boulder and Boulder area literati! This lecture series is FREE and open to everybody! Please register in advance. Refreshments will be served. *Authors will not be present at the lectures in this series*

Monday, September 21st, 2026 at 6:30pm

Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and filmmaker. Her best-selling, highly fictionalized autobiographical work L’Amant (1984), translated into English as The Lover, describes her youthful affair with a Chinese-Vietnamese man. The Lover won the Prix Goncourt in 1984.

Presented by Audrey Burba, Assistant Teaching Professor, Humanities & French