Dolores Reyes in conversation with Cecilia Szperling

Dolores Reyes is one of the most relevant Argentine authors of the year. Her first novel Eartheater (Cometierra), immediately became an editorial and political case in Argentina. The novel it's been already published in English (Harpers Collins), French (Éditions de l'Observatoire) and Italian (Solferino) and it's also in the process to be translated into Polish, Turkish, Greek, Danish, among other languages. It is dedicated to the memory of two teenagers victims of femicide, Melina Romero and Araceli Ramos. This talk is part of the London Spanish Book & Zine Fair in its third edition. About the authors: Dolores Reyes was born in Buenos Aires, where she studied classical literature. She is a teacher, known for her feminist activism. At the moment she is writing the sequel of Eartheater (Cometierra). She worked on her novel Cometierra with Selva Almada and Julian López. The novel was published in 2019 by Editorial Sigilo and received several literary prizes including the Medifé-Filba Foundation Novel Prize Finalist, Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize Finalist and Mario Vargas Llosa Prize Finalist. Cecilia Szperling is an Argentine writer, journalist, feminist referent, creator of radio and television literary series. She's written La máquina de proyectar sueños (2016 / Interzona Editorial); Selección natural (2006 / Adriana Hidalgo Editora), translated to English and published in the UK; El futuro de los artistas (1997 / Ediciones de la Flor), Relatos (1997), and El año de la militancia verde (2020 / Bajalibros). She is working on a sequel of La máquina de proyectar sueños to be published with Planeta.