Open Class: Chicas Muertas

By Selva Almada

Considered as one of the most powerful voices in Argentinian literature and one of the most promising ones in Latin American fiction. Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, Selva Almada is considered one of the most powerful writers of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American Literature.

October 14 | 2:20 - 3:30 pm @ Duques Hall

George Washington University

Fiction and Non-fiction in Selva Almada’s Narrative

A conversation with the author

Her work has been translated into French, English, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish. She is one of the directors of Salvaje Federal, a bookshop specialized in literature written and published in Argentina.

October 14 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm @ Romes Hall

George Washington University

Creative Writing Workshop

by Yuri Herrera

Studied Political Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, obtained a master's degree in Creative Writing at the University of Texas, El Paso, and a Ph.D., 2009, in Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the literary magazine El perro.

October 14 | 2:20 pm @ Patterson Hall

Maryland University

Writing in province: Dialogue with Selva Almada

What can be the differences between writing here or there?

Everyone can write but to compose and be an author requires  a special sensitivity towards life.  Your surroundings matter.  Come and pick up some notes on the differences between here and there!

October 15 | 4:00 - 6:00 pm @ Maryland University

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