November: Jorge Galán & Mark Dowd

Jorge Galán’s extraordinary non-fiction novel Noviembre, now published in an English translation by Jason Wilson as November, recounts the horrifying murder of six Jesuit priests and two women during the Salvadorian civil war in 1989, dealing both with its aftermath and the complex political situation from which the atrocity arose. Its original publication in Spanish led to death threats against the author which forced Galán to flee his native country. Galán will be in conversation with journalist Mark Dowd who has written widely and produced several documentaries on the relationship between religion and human rights. Jorge Galán (San Salvador, 1973) is the author of several books of poems and the novel The Room at the Bottom of the House, which has been translated into several languages. He won the Iberoamerican Prize Jaime Sabines 2011, the 2009 Antonio Machado International Prize, the Adonais Prize 2006, and the National Prize of El Salvador both in poetry and in novels and children's stories.