Jugar, explorar e inventar en la narrativa latinoamericana

(Iglesias, Legna) Legna Rodríguez Iglesias was born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1984, and moved to Miami in 2015. She is the author of numerous books of prose and poetry, and won the Wolsan-CubaPoesía Prize in 2013 for La gran arquitecta. She is also the author of Todo sobre papá, a book of poetry for children, and will soon publish her third novel, Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés. She is this year’s winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry for her collection, Miami Century Fox (Akashic Books). Translated by Eduardo Aparicio, Miami Century Fox is a delightful, seductive read. Sonnets? Rhyme and meter? Yes, along with a delicious serving of irony and wit. This is one very smart collection of poems—a loving and sly portrait of Miami and the immigrant experience in the twenty-first century. The Paz Prize for Poetry is presented by the National Poetry Series and Miami Book Fair. This annual award—named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize–winning poet, Octavio Paz—honors a previously unpublished book of poetry written originally in Spanish by an American resident. An open competition is held each May, when an esteemed Spanish-speaking poet selects a winning manuscript. (Rodriguez Iglesias, Legna) Legna Rodriguez Iglesias Nacida en Cuba, obtuvo el Premio Iberoamericano de Cuento Julio Cortázar 2011 y es ganadora del Premio Casa de las Américas 2016 de teatro. Es autora, además, de varios libros como Chupar la piedra (poesía), Tregua Fecunda (poesía), Hilo+Hilo (poesía), Las analfabetas (novela), No sabe/no contesta (cuento), Mayonesa bien brillante (novela), Dame Spray (poesía), Todo sobre papá (poesía para niños) y Transtucé. Su último libro publicado en Cuba es Chicle (ahora es cuando), poesía, en edición bilingüe de la Editorial Letras Cubanas 2016. Con el libro de poesía Miami Century Fox recibió el Premio Paz 2016 que otorgan la Feria del Libro de Miami del MDC y The National Poetry Series. Legna leerá versos de esa obra en una sesión de poesía y también presentará Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés (Alfaguara), libro en el que varias historias interconectadas exploran contradicciones de la vieja y la nueva Cuba, donde política, cultura, familia, amor, sexo y burocracia se entremezclan para formar un universo complejo e implacable.

(Cabiya, Pedro) Pedro Cabiya Nacido en la República Dominicana, es autor de los libros de cuentos Historias tremendas (Pen Club Book of the Year 1999) e Historias atroces, y de las novelas La cabeza, Trance, Saga de Sandulce y Malas hierbas. Su obra aparece en numerosas antologías internacionales, y sus cartas abiertas, artículos de opinión y ensayos sobre política, religión, derechos humanos, arte y ciencia son muy populares. Ha vivido en España, Estados Unidos, Haití y Puerto Rico. Reside en República Dominicana, donde se desempeña como decano de Asuntos Académicos en el Colegio Americano de Santo Domingo y como director de la productora Heart of Gold Media. Presenta en la feria su nueva novela Reinbou (Zemi Book) en la que anuda una trama tan espectacular como conmovedora, apropiándose de la memoria histórica con la gracia e ironía de los grandes maestros.

(Oloixorac, Pola) Pola Oloixarac is an Argentinian fiction writer and essayist. Her novels, Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, have been translated into seven languages. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The White Review, The New York Times, and Granta, which named her to its list of Best Young Spanish Novelists. She wrote the libretto for the opera Hercules in Mato Grosso, which debuted at Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón and was staged at New York City’s Dixon Place. Savage Theories (Soho Press), is a novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of Argentine academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolaño. Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla, and pursues her elderly professor. Savage Theories wryly explores fear and violence, war and sex, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible, visionary theories, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.