"Juáres in New Orleans"

Conference in Spanish and Reception to follow.

by Yuri Herrera

Discover the time Mexican President Benito Juárez spent in New Orleans and how is still relative after over 150 years later.

Join us at the Mexican Cultural Institute on October 17th at 6:00PM for a delightful literary evening.

Free event

*NOTE: All donations are not refundable / First arrived, first served. As we only have a limited capacity of 120 people, we encourage you to arrive on time so you can secure your seat. At the moment the limit is met, the venue will not receive any more guests.

About the author...

Studied Political Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, obtained a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Texas, El Paso, and a Ph.D., 2009, in Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the literary magazine El perro. His first novel, Trabajos del reino, won the 2004 Premio Binacional de Novela Joven. The novel was also published in Spain (Periférica, 2008) and won the Premio Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos, being considered the best work of fiction published in Spain by a jury of 100 people, including editors, journalists and cultural critics.

Elena Poniatowska characterized his prose as "stunning" and the novel as an entrance "to the golden gate of Mexican literature". Gabriel Wolfson describes Herrera's work as "amazing, constructed from exchanging cultured language for popular talk, emphasizing the importance of names, and using the forcefulness of certain terms while wisely omitting others".

His second novel, Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (2009) has led Herrera to being considered one of the most relevant young Mexican writers in the Spanish language. He has collaborated in magazines such as Letras libres.