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Author: Carolina De Robertis in conversation, The President and the Frog

A partnership with Berkeley Public Library and San Mateo County Libraries
Tuesday, 9/28/2021
7:00 - 8:00
Virtual Library

United States

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Carolina De Robertis in conversation with Julián Delgado Lopera discussing her latest book and the craft of writing and translating. A former Latin American president reminisces on his remarkable life. The President and the Frog is a timeless and timely exploration of power, revolution and survival.

 

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Carolina de Robertis is the author of six novels, including Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; it was also selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize and numerous other honors. The President and the Frog is her newest book. An author of Uruguayan origins, she teaches at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California, with her wife and two children.

De Robertis is also an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature, and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. In 2017, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people, organizations and movements that are shaping the future of culture.”

 

Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Lopera is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. They received fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Headlands Center for The Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Granta, Teen Vogue, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, The Rumpus, The White Review, LALT, Four Way Review, Broadly, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions  a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. 

 

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Carolina de Robertis - Website | Carolina de Robertis - Twitter | Carolina de Robertis - Instagram

Julián Delgado Lopera - Website | Julián Delgado Lopera - Twitter | Julián Delgado Lopera - Instagram

This event is a partnership with Berkeley Public Library and San Mateo County Libraries.

 

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