Event Highlights: Una conversación (en español) con Pablo Sánchez | Latin American Studies

Event Highlights: Una conversación (en español) con Pablo Sánchez

This virtual conversation with author Pablo Sánchez about his new book, Yo no he muerto en México (March 2021) took place on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The book tells the story of Alejandro Ramírez, a young Spanish literature professor who, tired of the Spain of the early 21st century, gets a job at a Mexican university in Cholula, the oldest living city in America, widely considered the Jerusalem of the pre-Hispanic world.

Pablo Sánchez was born in Barcelona in 1970. He has a doctorate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and for several years he was a professor of literature in Mexico. Currently he works as a researcher at the University of Seville and studies the relationships between literature and ideology in the sixties of the twentieth century. His first novel, Caja negra, won the Trapo Language Award in 2005.

With the participation of Adela Pineda, professor and director of the Center for Latin American Studies, Boston University, and Gabriel Wolfson, professor of literature, Universidad de las Américas Puebla.

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