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Karina Pacheco in conversation with Verónica Ramírez

Arequipa 2024, Saturday 9 November 2024

Karina Pacheco (Peru) presents her new book, Niños del pájaro azul, in conversation with Verónica Ramírez. Pacheco is a writer, anthropologist and publisher, and has written acclaimed books such as La voluntad del molle. As well as an author of short stories, she runs Ceques Editores, an independent publishing company that specializes in literature, history and anthropology and, in the year 2022 she won the National Literature Prize. The stories from this book take place in villages in the Amazon region, the mountains, or beautiful islands, all beset by corruption, the devastation of nature, or unresolved conflicts from the past, and all of them are filled with the questions of many children, or by the memory of their songs.