WordShedNYC Reading Series Featuring Oscar Guardiola Rivera
Sun, Aug 22
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Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is an art-armed freedom fighter from Latin America, poet, award-winning author, and philosopher in exile.
Time & Location
Aug 22, 2021, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Online
Guests
About the event
He’s the author of such critically acclaimed books as What If Latin America Ruled the World?(Bloomsbury, 2010) winner of the Frantz Fanon Award, and Story of a Death Foretold. The Coup Against Salvador Allende (Bloomsbury, 2013) shortlisted for the 2014 Bread & Roses Award, both selected among the best non-fiction publications of the year. More recently, In Defence of Armed/Art Struggle (Bogota: UTadeo, 2019), and the poetic novel Night of the World (The 87 Press, 2021). He’s a Fellow of the RSA and teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. His docu-series “Art & Fire: A Journey in Five Films”, co-produced with Hay Festivals is available at https://hayfestival.com