T157.
Mi Casa Es Su Casa: A Bilingual Event for Latinx Writers
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
Uprooted writers discuss themes of home, displacement, and rerooting in aid of diverse literature. These authors had one more barrier: their work had to be translated or reconceived to reflect their uprootedness for this book, giving us a view we seldom see: the path of the writer before he becomes acculturated. What happens to the work of those "just-arriveds"? Is it lost? How can we prevent it if so? (This event will be held mostly in Spanish.)
Participants
Anjanette Delgado is a novelist and journalist who writes about identity, displacement, and heartbreak, often through immigrant characters from Caribbean countries. Author of The Heartbreak Pill and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho, she holds an MFA in CRW from FIU.
Hernán Vera Álvarez, sometimes known as “Vera,” is the author of La librería del mal salvaje, winner of a Florida Book Award; Grand Nocturno; La vida enferma; and Los románticos eléctricos. He is editor of the anthologies Viaje One Way; Miami (Un)plugged; Don´t cry for me, América; and Escritorxs Salvajes.
Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the author of Tortillera. She is a contributing editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to Sexual Assault and associate editor for SWWIM Every Day. A career educator, she is an English professor in Miami, Florida.
Daniel Reschinga
