mexican writer Brenda NavarroMario Benedetti, also a sociologist, economist and staunch advocate of human rights, will be the hero of a new event organized by the UA Center for Ibero-American Literature Studies (CeMaB) and the USA. MA in Literary Studies (MaESL). Navarro will give the lecture “Writing and Life (about “Ceniza en la boca”)” next Tuesday, April 12, at 5:30 PM. Campus CeMaB (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters III). In this literary quote, the hero will engage in a dialogue with the so-called.r Ferran Riesgospecialist in the current Latin American narrative.
The event will be held face-to-face and can also be followed live.
Mexican writer, sociologist and economist residing in Madrid, Brenda Navarro was born in Mexico City On February 26, 1982, she studied Sociology and Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and completed her MA in Gender, Women and Citizenship Studies at the University of Barcelona.
Navarro established literature pack, An editorial project that aims to pave the way for women’s voices in Latin America. it happened writer, screenwriter, reporter and editor. She has worked for various human rights NGOs and attends economics and creative writing workshops. His literary production consists of such works. empty houses -which won Juan Kaplan Award Translated into seven languages in 2020—and ash in the mouth.
ash in the mouth
Diego is jumping from the fifth floor, and since then this image has not stopped piercing his sister’s head: six seconds and a body falling to the ground. It is he who looks back and tells the story of the two brothers. Being born in a house where life is never fair.
While their mother sought a life in Spain, the years they spent with their grandparents in Mexico and caring for Diego was still a child. The scene in Madrid, a city they don’t understand and they don’t understand either. The first breakup was when he went to Barcelona for the road and his brother stayed where he hated the most. And Diego’s return, carrying his ashes, to a Mexico very different from the one he remembered.
This novel tells emotional journey of a young woman Sensing the reasons for his younger brother’s suicide, he is the protagonist of his own Ulysses syndrome, where neither departure nor return is truly destiny. Brenda Navarro’s tale of breakups and abandonment, longing and anger, loss and beginning life, in which she boldly tackles tough questions such as: inequality, xenophobia or rootlessness, and this confirms him as one of the most powerful and courageous narrators of our literature. Intense, instinctive, and destructive, Ceniza en la la is a book that burns and raises the painful question that life is worth living.