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Valeria Luiselli, Guadalupe Nettel

In conversation with Magdalena Edwards

February 23, 2017

This is a bilingual podcast (English/Spanish).

The eccentric fictional worlds of authors Valeria Luiselli and Guadalupe Nettel come alive on the ALOUD stage as these two leading voices in contemporary Mexican literature meet to share recent work. Luiselli, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and two-time recipient of the Los Angeles Times’ Book Prizes will share The Story of My Teeth, an imaginative odyssey through Mexico City’s art world and industrial suburbs. Guadalupe Nettel, voted one of the most important Latin American writers at the Bogotá Hay Festival, playfully illuminates human obsessions in her short fiction Natural Histories, and narrates her unconventional childhood in the autobiographical novel, The Body Where I Was Born.

Co-presented with the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles


Este es un podcast bilingüe (inglés/español).

Los excéntricos mundos ficticios de autoras Valeria Luiselli y Guadalupe Nettel toman vida en el escenario de ALOUD cuando estas dos destacadas voces de la literatura Mexicana contemporánea se encuentran para compartir sus obras recientes. Luiselli, finalista para el National Book Critics Award in Fiction y ganadora, dos veces, del Los Angeles Times Book Prize, presentará La historia de mis dientes, una odisea creativa por el mundo del arte en la ciudad de México y sus suburbios industriales. Guadalupe Nettel, seleccionada como una de las mas importantes escritoras de América Latina en el Hay Festival de Bogotá, ilumina lúdicamente las obsesiones humanas en sus relatos cortos en El matrimonio de los peces rojos y narra su infancia inusual en la novela autobiográfica El cuerpo en que nací.

Co-presentado con el Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles

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