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Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Horacio Castellanos Moya, reading, Live From Prairie Lights, September 7, 2011
Crosthwaite, Luis Humberto, 1962- Castellanos Moya, Horacio, 1957-
WSUI (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa) Prairie Lights (Iowa City, Iowa)
American Salvadorian
WSUI (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa)
Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Horacio Castellanos Moya read from their work in a special event held in conjunction with the University of Iowa Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Luis Humberto Crosthwaite is an award winning writer, editor and journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of international venues. His fiction has garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border. Among his best known books are Estrella de la Calle Sexta, Aparta de mí este Cáliz, Idos de la Mente, Instrucciones para Cruzar la Frontera, and Tijuana: Crimen y Olvido. His translated novels are The Moon will Forever be a Distant Love, and Out of their Minds. He is also coeditor of Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border. Horacio Castellanos Moya is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as the editor of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala and his own country. As a fiction writer, he was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and in the City of Asylum program in Pittsburgh (2006-2008). He has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he was guest researcher at the University of Tokyo with a fellowship granted by the Japan Foundation. He has published ten novels, five short story collections and a book of essays. His novels have been translated into ten languages; four of them (Senselessness, The She-Devil in the Mirror, Dance with Snakes and Tyrant Memory) are available in English.
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