Upcoming Events at Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
Thu Feb 23, 7:00 PM - Thu Feb 23, 8:30 PM
Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
31 W. Ohio St., Chicago, IL 60654
Community: River North
Description
Instituto Cervantes of Chicago presents Una Conversación con Pola Oloixarac
Event Details
FREE and open to the public.
Pola Oloixarac is a fiction writer and essayist. Her novels, Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, have been translated into seven languages. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The White Review, The New York Times, and Granta, which named her to its list of Best Young Spanish Novelists. She wrote the libretto for the opera Hercules in Mato Grosso, which debuted at Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón and was staged at New York City’s Dixon Place. Savage Theories is her first novel to appear in English, in 2017.
The conversation will be moderated by Pablo Maurette, Collegiate Assistant Professor, in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
The event is organized by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago and Instituto Cervantes in Chicago, and sponsored by the Consulate General of the Argentine Republic in Chicago.
For more information contact with Claudia Giribaldi
cgiribaldi@uchicago.edu
Pola Oloixarac is a fiction writer and essayist. Her novels, Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, have been translated into seven languages. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The White Review, The New York Times, and Granta, which named her to its list of Best Young Spanish Novelists. She wrote the libretto for the opera Hercules in Mato Grosso, which debuted at Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón and was staged at New York City’s Dixon Place. Savage Theories is her first novel to appear in English, in 2017.
The conversation will be moderated by Pablo Maurette, Collegiate Assistant Professor, in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
The event is organized by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago and Instituto Cervantes in Chicago, and sponsored by the Consulate General of the Argentine Republic in Chicago.
For more information contact with Claudia Giribaldi
cgiribaldi@uchicago.edu
