7:00 p.m.
Members only reception to follow.

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Elena Poniatowska. (Photo: Agustín Peña)

A Conversation with Elena Poniatowska and Michael K. Schuessler

Elena Poniatowska and Michael Schuessler will speak at Americas Society on September 12.

7:00 p.m.
Members only reception to follow.

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Elena Poniatowska. (Photo: Agustín Peña)

Overview

Admission: FREE for AS Members; $25.00 for non-members.

The celebrated Mexican novelist and journalist Elena Poniatowska and author Michael K. Schuessler will engage in a conversation about literature and culture in Mexico. The event will highlight Poniatowska’s historical novel Leonora, inspired by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, and Schuessler’s Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Biography. This event is part of Celebrate México Now, a citywide festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture produced by CN Management. A limited number of tickets are available for non-members. This program will be held in English. A members-only book signing will follow in collaboration with La Casa Azul Bookstore

With the additional collaboration of Columbia University; the Hispanic New York Project; Hunter College, CUNY;  InterAmericas®; The International Literary Quarterly; McNally Jackson Books; and New York University.

Event Information: Jose Negroni | jnegroni@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8353
Press Inquiries: Adriana La Rotta | alarotta@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8384

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Elena Poniatowska was born in 1932 in Paris and raised in Mexico. Her best-selling works include Hasta no verte, Jesús mío (1969; Here’s to You, Jesusa!, 2001), based on the life-story of a poor working-class woman who fought in the Mexican Revolution; Noche de Tlatelolco (1971; Massacre in Mexico, 1975), a personal exploration of the 1968 massacre of students at the Plaza de Tlatelolco in Mexico City; and Tinísima (1992; Tinísima, 1996), a historical novel inspired by the life of photographer and militant activist Tina Modotti. Poniatowska has also written essays examining the life and work of prominent Mexican women artists. In 2001 she was awarded the internationally-renowned Alfaguara Prize for her novel La piel del cielo. Her historical novel Leonora (2011) was awarded the Biblioteca Breve prize. Americas Society’s journal, Review:  Literature and Arts of the Americas, has published excerpts from Here’s to You, Jesusa! and Tinísima, and has followed Poniatowska’s work over the years.

Michael K. Schuessler is a professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, in Mexico City. He is the author of the biographies Guadalupe Amor: La undécima musa [The Eleventh Muse] (1995) and Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Biography (2006). He is also the editor of Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico, the lost autobiography of Alma Reed, “La Peregrina” (2007). Schuessler is now working on a novel, An American Princess: The Life and Times of Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclerq Joy, Princess Salm-Salm, a fellow-traveler to Maximilian’s court in Mexico; an excerpt appeared in Review 84 (Spring 2012).
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