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María Negroni and Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with Daniela Pabón

Creation

Cartagena 2025, 

Poetry and narrative; fiction and non-fiction; creation and translation; two writers who cross these borders will talk to Daniela Pabón. With María Negroni (Argentina), the author of numerous poetry books, essays and novels, translated into several languages, Doctor in Latin American Literature from Columbia University and Director of the Master’s in Creative Writing at UNTREF in Buenos Aires. Guggenheim, Rockefeller and now DAAD fellow, her recent publications include La idea natural, a homage to nature, literature and everything they bring, and Utilidad de las estrellas. Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexico) is a translator, essayist, fiction writer and founder of the doctorate in Creative Writing in Spanish at Houston University. MacArthur fellow and winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Liliana’s Invincible Summer. On this occasion she presents the poetry book, Me llamo cuerpo que no está.

María Negroni and Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with Daniela Pabón