Peruvian poets Mariela Dreyfus and Roger Santivánez will read from their latest poetry collections.
Literature
Join Americas Society for the launch of Review 87, which will feature five of the most important bilingual readers from the region.
Americas Society will host Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and critic John King where the pair will discuss a variety of topics and highlight Vargas Llosa's work.
Voted one of the best young novelists in Spanish, Santiago Roncagliolo, and translator Edit Grossman will discuss the Peruvian author's latest collection, Hi, This is Conchita and Other Stories.
A panel will read from five new translations of renowned Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's modern fiction novels.
Clayton Eshleman and A. James Arnold will read from their translation of Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, the 1939 text by acclaimed Martinician poet Aimé Césaire.
Renowned poet Antonio Mazzotti reads from Sakra Boccata with Clayton Eshelman translating. A book signing and private reception follow the event.