Let's talk about literature with Jorge Carrion

Jorge Carrión is a Spanish writer and literary critic born in Tarragona in 1976. He has lived most of his live in the town of Mataró and in Barcelona. He has a PhD in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University and manages the Master in Creative Writing at the same institution. He has lived in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Chicago. He publishes regularly  in several Spanish journals and magazines such as El País, La Vanguardia or Letras Libres. He is the author of a tetralogy of fiction (that includes Los muertos, Los huérfanos, Los turistas and Los difuntos) and is also the author of various non-fiction books, such as Australia. Un viaje, Teleshakespeare and Librerías. He was the curator of the exhibition “Las variaciones Sebald”, at the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona (CCCB). His work has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Polish and English.

He will be in conversation with Professor Lilit Thwaites.

Lilit Thwaites is an award-winning Melbourne-based literary translator, and an honorary research fellow in contemporary Spanish literature at La Trobe University. She was the first recipient of the inaugural Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize (2015), and was recently awarded the Spanish Order of Civil Merit for her contribution to the promotion of Spanish culture in Australia. Translation highlights include The Librarian of Auschwitz (Antonio Iturbe, 2017), named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2017, and recently awarded the Gold Medal (Teen Category, Sydney Taylor 2018 Book Awards; and Tears in Rain (Rosa Montero), one of World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2012.