Please join us in welcoming four fantastic international writers to Twenty Stories: Jazmina Barrera (Mexico), Marie Darrieussecq (France), Anne Garréta (France), and Gabriela Wiener (Peru/Spain)! Each will read their works in the original Spanish and French with translations provided and followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
ABOUT JAZMINA BARRERA
Jazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters and at Mexico’s Fonca’s Program for young writers and she’s a member of the SNCA (National System of Art Creators in Mexico). She was a beneficiary of the residencies at Casa Estudio Cien años de Soledad. She has published work in various print and digital media, such as The Paris Review, El Malpensante, Words Without Borders, El País and The New York Times. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She is the author of four books in Spanish: Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra, Punto de cruz, and the children’s book, Los nombres de los animales. Her books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and French. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing in 2013. Cuaderno de faros (On Lighthouses) was long listed for the von Rezzori award and chosen for the Indie Next list by Indie Bound. Linea Nigra was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize, the CANIEM’s Book of the year award and the Amazon Primera Novela (First Novel) Award. Punto de cruz (Cross-Stitch) was a finalist in the Calamo Awards and long-listed for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.
ABOUT MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ
Marie Darrieussecq (PhD) was a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and wrote her PhD thesis in 1997 on autofiction and autobiography. She was a psychoanalyst before turning exclusively to writing. She has published more than 20 books, including novels, short stories, biographies, and non-fiction, and has also written for the theatre and translation. She released her debut, best-selling novel Truismes in 1996, and has since been a laureate of the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013. Her work is translated in many languages. Sleepless was her last book translated into English (Semiotext, 2023). Fabriquer une femme is her new novel at POL (January 2024) and will be published in the USA by Transit books.
ABOUT ANNE GARRETA
Anne F. Garréta is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, received her License de Lettres at the Université Paris 4 (Sorbonne), her Maitrise and her D.E.A at the Université Paris 7 (Diderot), and a PhD at New York University. The author of six novels, Garréta was coopted to the Oulipo in 2000. Her first novel, Sphinx (1986), which caused a sensation when Deep Vellum published its first English translation in 2015, tells a love story between two people without giving any indication of grammatical gender for the narrator or their lover. She won France's prestigious Prix Médicis in 2002 and the Albertine Prize in 2018 for her book, Not One Day, which was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Garréta teaches regularly in France at the Université Rennes 2, and more recently at Paris 7 (Diderot), and is a professor at Duke University.
ABOUT GABRIELA WIENER
Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Her books include Sexographies, Nine Moons, and Undiscovered. Her work has been widely published in anthologies and translated into six languages. In 2018, she was awarded Peru’s National Journalism Award for her part in an investigative report on gender violence. Her novel Undiscovered was longlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize. She currently resides in Madrid.