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SUMMARY:Writing Latino History
DESCRIPTION:Featured writer: Marie Arana; Moderator: Juan Martinez\nThe Literary Director of the Library of Congress, Marie Arana, discusses the importance of preserving and uplifting Latino history and her new book LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority.\nBook signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)\n🖊️Marie Arana: 1:00 – 1:20\nFULL SCHEDULE ( https://americanwritersmuseum.org/american-writers-festival/schedule/ )\nAbout the writers:\nMARIE ARANA is a Peruvian-American author of nonfiction and fiction as well as the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of a 2020 literary award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Among her recent positions are: Director of the National Book Festival, the John W. Kluge Center’s Chair of the Cultures of the Countries of the South, and Writer at Large for the Washington Post. For many years, she was editor-in-chief of the Washington Post’s book review section, Book World. Marie has also written for the New York Times, the National Geographic, Time Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, Spain’s El País, Colombia’s El Tiempo, and Peru’s El Comercio, among many other publications. Her sweeping history of Latin America, Silver, Sword, and Stone, was named Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 by the American Library Association, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence. Her biography of Simón Bolívar won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Marie’s memoir, American Chica, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. She has also published two prizewinning novels, Cellophane and Lima Nights.\nJUAN MARTINEZ is the author of the novel Extended Stay (2023) and the story collection Best Worst American (2017). He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Huizache, Ecotone, NIGHTMARE, NPR’s Selected Shorts, Mississippi Review and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares and The Sunday Morning Transport.\nBooks by these writers:\nVIEW FESTIVAL READING LIST\n\nExtended Stay by Juan Martinez\nHaunting and visceral, Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the Latinx undocumented experience and capitalism.\n\nLatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana\nA sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.\n
URL:https://americanwritersmuseum.org/program-calendar/american-writers-festival-writing-latino-history/
CATEGORIES:American Writers Festival,History & Bio,Latinx Voices
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library Center
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