Winners of Hopwood Awards and other Winter Term writing contests administered by the Hopwood Awards Program will be announced. A lecture by fiction and travel writer Paul Theroux will follow the announcement of the awards. Mr. Theroux is the author of 32 novel and short story collections, beginning with The Great Railway Bazaar. His most recent novel is The Lower River (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). He is also the author of 17 nonfiction books, most recently The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Several of his books have been made into feature films (Saint Jack, The Mosquito Coast).