The Gibraltar Tourist Board has announced a further two speakers for this year’s edition of the Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival. 

A statement from the Government follows below:

Rob Henderson 

Rob Henderson will deliver a 45-minute presentation on his first book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster  Care, Family, and Social Class, a national bestseller in the US. 

Rob grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and the rural town of Red Bluff, California. He joined  the US Air Force at the age of seventeen. After his enlistment, he graduated from Yale University  with a BS in psychology and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Once  described as “self-made” by the New York Times, Rob earned a PhD in psychology from the  University of Cambridge. 

His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe,  among other outlets, and he has appeared on many popular podcasts, including Honestly with Bari  Weiss, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, and Modern Wisdom. Rob’s Substack newsletter is sent each  week to more than sixty thousand subscribers. 

Paul Pettitt 

Paul Pettitt will deliver a PowerPoint-illustrated talk, drawing on 25 years’ experience as a  Palaeolithic archaeologist. Focussing on his research, detailed in his book Homo Sapiens  Rediscovered. The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins, Paul will illustrate the Ice Age life of  our Homo sapiens ancestors and present an up-to-date summary of our species’ biological and  behavioural evolution. 

Paul is Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Durham University, UK. He has degrees from the  Universities of Birmingham, London and Cambridge, at the latter researching Neanderthal  behaviour in Southwest France for his PhD. He was Senior Archaeologist at the Oxford  Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Fellow and Tutor in Archaeology and Anthropology at  Keble College, Oxford, and Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Palaeolithic Archaeology at Sheffield University before taking up his Durham chair in 2013. He researches the behaviour of  the Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in Europe, specialising in the treatment of the dead and  the emergence of art. He is currently excavating a campsite of Upper Palaeolithic mammoth  hunters in Moldova and researching aspects of the visual psychology underpinning Palaeolithic  art. 

The Minister for Tourism, the Hon Christian Santos, said: ‘I’m delighted to announce these next  authors in the line-up for the 2024 edition of the Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival. Each year  the Literary Festival is a highlight of Gibraltar’s cultural calendar, and 2024 promises to be no  different.’