Monkey Boy: Francisco Goldman

Francisco Goldman and Beatriz Hausner

Monkey Boy: Francisco Goldman

Francisco Goldman and Beatriz Hausner

6:00pm

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Highly acclaimed author and Pen/Faulkner Prize finalist Francisco Goldman depicts an intimate yet hilarious auto-fictional account of the deep rooted trauma of growing up Guatemalan and Jewish in America. Don’t miss this entertaining conversation with Goldman on divided identities and the coming-of-age experiences in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb, as depicted in his latest novel, Monkey Boy.

Interviewer: Beatriz Hausner

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Highly acclaimed author and Pen/Faulkner Prize finalist Francisco Goldman depicts an intimate yet hilarious auto-fictional account of the deep rooted trauma of growing up Guatemalan and Jewish in America. Don’t miss this entertaining conversation with Goldman on divided identities and the coming-of-age experiences in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb, as depicted in his latest novel, Monkey Boy.

Interviewer: Beatriz Hausner

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Francisco Goldman is an award-winning author of five novels and two non-fiction books. His novels have been finalists for several prizes, including, twice, the Pen/Faulkner Prize. The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. The Art of Political Murder won The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and the WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle, published in 2013, was named by the LA Times one of 10 best books of the year and received The Blue Metropolis “Premio Azul” 2017. His novel Say Her Name won the 2011 Prix Femina étranger.

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Beatriz Hausner has published several poetry collections, including Sew Him Up, Enter the Raccoon and Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart. Her books have been published internationally and translated into several languages, including her native Spanish, French, Dutch and most recently Greek. Her translations of Latin American surrealists like César Moro, Rosamel del Valle, Jorge Cáceres and Aldo Pellegrini have exerted an important influence on her own writing. Hausner was President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission. She lives in Toronto where she publishes The Philosophical Egg.

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