We bring together three outstanding women writers to read aloud some of their more recent works. They will reveal their individual paradises and recommend some readings for us to dive into the Irish and Hispanic literature.
The Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of The Taiga Syndrome, longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award 2020. Christine Dwyer Hickey, Irish writer which book Tatty is One City One Book 2020. Begoña Oro, Spanish writer of Children and YA literature and creator of the character Rasi the squirrel, adds the perfect final touch to this event.
Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexico, 1964) is an award-winning author, translator and critic. Her most recent books include: The Iliac Crest, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press, 2017); The Taiga Syndrome, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana (Dorothy Project, 2018); Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué (Random House, 2016). Will be available soon: Autobiografía del algodón (Random House, 2020); Grieveing. Dispatches from a Wounded County, translated by Sarah Booker (Feminist Press, 2020); The Restless Dead. Necrowriting and Disappropriation, translated by Robin Myers (Vanderbilt Press, 2020); La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain from Modern Mexico (Oklahoma Press, 2020). She is a distinguished professor and founder of the PhD in Creative Writing Program in Spanish at The University of Houston.
Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel Tatty is One City One Book 2020 and her latest novel The Narrow Land, which was published in 2019, is the winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the winner of the inaugural Dalkey Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year 2019. Her work is widely translated into European and Arabic languages. She is a member of Aosdána.
Begoña Oro is the winner of prizes such as Gran Angular, Hache and Lazarillo, and has been shortlisted for El Barco de Vapor…
Hundreds of thousands of children have started reading with books written by her: Lecturas para dormir a un rey, Ensalada de letras or La pandilla de la ardilla, and have continued reading her mystery and humor collections Misterios a domicilio or Monsterchef. Especially well-known is her character Rasi the squirrel. She is also the author of books for pre-readers, such as Cuentos bonitos para quedarse fritos, Día a día, letra a letra, de la A a la Z, Letricuentos or the collection Julia & Paco. Many of her books were written in Dublin, where she lived for two years, enjoying its people, its parks and libraries, including the library of the Instituto Cervantes and its Cervantes Dublin Theatre Club. Her latest illustrated album, Los días en casa, illustrated by Nuria Aparicio, addresses the situation caused by Covid-19 from a child's perspective.
Some of her works has been translated into German, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Turkish, Persian…
She greatly misses Ireland.