Riggio Forum: Carmen Boulloso

Carmen Boullosa’s novel set in Cervantes' time, La otra mano de Lepanto, was published in Spain (2005) and in Mexico (2006), and was named by Reforma's distinguished critic Sergio González Rodríguez, the best novel published in Mexico in 2005. Reforma also designated Boullosa's book Salto de mantarraya (y otros dos) as the best book of poems published in Mexico in 2004. Her next book, La novela perfecta was published by Alfaguara in Mexico and selected by Reforma as the best novel published in Mexico in 2006.  Her latest novel, El velázquez de París (The Parisian Velázquez) was published in Spain (2007).

Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, faculty, the School of Writing.