Jul 30 2020 18 mins
Works by Luisa Valenzuela
The Lizard’s Tail (print book)
The Wanderer by Luisa Valenzuela, translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz (link opens a short story from The Brooklyn Rail's InTranslation)
He Who Searches Latin American Literature Series (link opens Dalkey Archive Press site with two translated works - print on demand)
Collections/Anthologies Containing Stories from Luisa Valenzuela
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories From Latin America and the United States (print book)
Brevity by David Galef
The Will to Heal: Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers (print book)
Other Related Books or Materials
Luisa Valenzuela, The Art of Fiction No. 170 (link opens an article from The Paris Review from 2001)
Luisa Valenzuela on Writing, Power and Gender (link opens an article from the Cervantes Virtual Library
About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.