Event HFJ8
Mayra Santos-Febres in conversation with Ricardo Chica
Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de San Agustín (Biblioteca)
We talk to an outstanding figure in contemporary literature of the Caribbean: Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico), a writer and academic, recipient of awards such as the Juan Rulfo Prize and the prestigious Guggenheim, Ford and Rockefeller fellowships. Co-creator of the University of Puerto Rico’s creative writing programme and founder of the Festival of the Word (2008-2019). As a researcher she is an authority on the subject of Afro-descendants and racialisation. Her most recent publication, La otra Julia, which won a Guggenheim Fellowship, is a fictionalised biography of the Puerto Rico poet and journalist Julia de Burgos. In conversation with Ricardo Chica.
Event free for the university community
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