Litquake 2022 – Estrellas Nuevas: Three Spanish-Language Novelists
7:00 – 9:00 pm PT
Marigold | 194 Church Street | San Francisco, CA
Event admission is free. Registration is strongly recommended.
Join us for an evening of literature and cocktails as Granta celebrates its recent anthology Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2. Three of its contributors from Spain—Irene Reyes Noguerol, Alejandro Morellón, and David Aliaga— discuss current trends in Spanish-language literature, with translator and Granta editor Valerie Miles and special guest Forrest Gander.
Co-presented by the Center for the Art of Translation and Granta.
Part of Litquake’s Words Around the World series, sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation. This event is also sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts.
David Aliaga (1989) is a writer recognized by Granta as one of the best young Spanish-language novelists of the last decade. His fiction books include Y no me llamaré más Jacob (2016) and El año nuevo de los árboles (2018), some of whose short stories have been translated into English and German. Aliaga is a specialist in representation of Jewish identity, both in contemporary literature and in comic books, and in 2018 he co-directed Séfer, the Jewish Book Festival of Barcelona. Last year, the city of Barcelona awarded him with the Montserrat Roig scholarship for creative writing.
Alejandro Morellón (1985) is the author of the short story books La noche en que caemos (Monteleón Prize, 2012), El estado natural de las cosas (Gabriel García Márquez Prize, 2017), El peor escenario posible (Ignacio Aldecoa Prize, 2022); the novel Caballo sea la noche (Candaya, 2019) and the book of mistic poems Un dios extranjero (San Juan de la Cruz Mistic Poetry Prize). In 2021 he was included by Granta magazine in their Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists list. Currently he lives in Madrid.
Irene Reyes-Noguerol (Seville, 1997) has a BA in Hispanic Philology and has completed a Creative Writing Workshop at the Camilo José Cela University of Madrid. She is currently working as a Spanish Language and Literature teacher. Reyes-Noguerol has won several awards, both in national and international story contests, and her texts have appeared, so far, in 14 anthologies. At the age of 18 she published her first solo book, Caleidoscopios, followed by De Homero y otros dioses. In 2021, Reyes-Noguerol was selected by Granta as one of the best writers in Spanish under the age of 35.
Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator and multi-genre writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, and United States Artists Foundations. His recent book, Twice Alive, focuses on human and ecological intimacies.
Valerie Miles, an editor, writer and translator, co-founded Granta en Español in 2003. She established the NYRB Classics series in Spanish, curated the exhibition dedicated to Roberto Bolaño’s archival papers and edited his posthumous work. She teaches translation and creative writing at the Pompeu Fabra University, has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, El País and the Paris Review, and is the author of A Thousand Forests in One Acorn. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.