On Friday, October 23, 9:30am - 11:20am at SFU Surrey, Room 5380. Join us for a reading and dialogue with Edmundo Paz Soldán.
Paz Soldán is the author of eight novels and three short story collections. He has won the National Book Award in Bolivia, the prestigious Juan Rulfo Award, and was a finalist for the Romulo Gallegos Award. He is an associate professor at Cornell University. He has received the Guggenheim fellowship (2006), and recently has been named one of the top 50 Ibero-American intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine. One of the few McOndo writers who live in the United States, he is frequently called upon as the movements spokesperson by the American media.
Paz Soldán will read from Turing's Delirium, a cyperbunk thriller set in a globalized Bolivia, and The Living and the Dead, a mystery set in a high school in small-town America. Paulo Horta, Assistant Professor in the World Literature Program, will moderate and there will be a question and answer period.
Seating is limited and spots will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.