The Center at Litquake! A Night of Mexican Literature
Tres | 130 Townsend Street | San Francisco, CA
Two Voices teams up with the Mexican Consulate and Litquake for an evening with Carmen Boullosa and Pura Lopez Colome, exciting and influential writers who are a testament to the increasing relevance of the feminine viewpoint in Mexican writing.
Come see Carmen Boullosa, a racy and in-your-face writer who counted Roberto Bolano as an admirer. She’s joined by leading Mexican poet Pura Lopez Colome, who in 2008 was awarded Mexico’s most prestigious poetry prize, the Xavier Villurrutia Prize
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels, two of which were designated the Best Novel Published in Mexico by the prestigious magazine Reforma—her second novel, Before, also won the renowned Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel; and her novel La otra mano de Lepanto was also selected as one of the Top 100 Novels Published in Spanish in the past 25 years. Her most recent novel, Texas: The Great Theft won the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award, was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award, and has been nominated for the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award.
Born in Mexico City in 1952, Pura López Colomé is a literary critic, poet, and the author of several books, including El sueño del cazador, Un Cristol en Otro, Aurora, and Intemperie. She is also the translator into Spanish of works by Samuel Beckett, H. D., Seamus Heaney, Gertrude Stein, and others.