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In this PEN America event from their 2022 World Voices Festival, authors Jean Guerrero, Omar El Akkad, Ousman Umar, and Yuri Herrera come together for a conversation about border and migrant narratives, the current global crises of displacement, and how literature tells the stories of those often ignored or hidden.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Translation | PEN America | Jean Guerrero | Omar El Akkad | Ousman Umar | Yuri Herrera | discussion | conversation | panel | 2022 -
Yuri Herrera reads from his debut novel, Kingdom Cons (Faber & Faber, 2012), translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, at a 2012 Litquake event at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. Herrera's second novel, Signs Preceding the End of the World (And Other Stories, 2015), also translated by Dillman, is the winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award in fiction.
Tags: 2015 | reading | Faber & Faber | 2012 | Litquake | 2016 | Yuri Herrera | Kingdom Cons | Lisa Dillman | Spanish | Signs Preceding the End of the World | And Other Stories | Best Translated Book Awards | Fiction