Event

ÁLVARO ENRIGUE - Hypothermia

Book signing
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9, 11:30 12:30 pm
Printers Row Lit Festival
Instituto Cervantes Booth

Saturday, June 8, 7 p.m.
Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
31 W. Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60654
312.335.1996

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Registration in advance is required so we can plan accordingly.

The Instituto Cervantes in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico, National Museum of Mexican Art, University of Chicago, Loyola University, DePaul University, University of Illinois in Chicago, Contratiempo and Hoy Newspaper present a series of six panel discussions from May through December.
The internationally acclaimed Mexican writers, Yuri Herrera, Álvaro Enrigue, Margo Glantz, Elena Poniatowska, Cristina Rivera Garza and Sabina Berman will all be featured in the premiere of this annual series in 2013.
The bilingual panel discussions will pair each Mexican writer with a local Chicago scholar or journalist to explore the social, political and philosophical themes raised in their books. They will also investigate how Mexican and American literature, history and culture differ, inform and influence one another.

Álvaro Enrigue is the award winning author of four novels and two books of short stories. Dalkey Archives Press published in the U.S. this spring the English edition of his book Hypothermia. He has been a Fellow at the Cullman Center in the New York Public Library and in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Mexico. He currently lives in New York City and teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University.