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This event proposes a re-reading of the Mexican literary canon by challenging two of its main guiding principles: gender and nation. It aims to define 'women's writing' and explore recent literature of the region, questioning established concepts of what Américo Paredes reffers to as Greater Mexico.
Featuring groundbreaking voices in contemporary literature Brenda Navarro and Sara Uribe Sánchez the event aspires to create a dialogue that transcends traditional boundaries.
Speakers: Sara Uribe Sánchez, writer and poet. Brenda Navarro, writer, sociologist, and economist.
Moderated by Alejandra Vela Martínez, Assistant Professor in Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures Department.
Biographies
Sara Uribe Sánchez: Writer and poet, was born in Querétaro on January 13, 1978. In 1996, she moved to Tampico, Tamaulipas, where she studied Philosophy. She recently obtained a master's degree in Modern Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Among her occupations, she has served as the director of the Historical Archive of Tampico, conducted a creative writing workshop titled "El oficio de escribir," and participated in the first two editions of the Young Writers Meeting of Northern Mexico (2005 and 2006) and the International Literature Festival "Letras del Mundo" in Tamaulipas (2006).
Uribe has received significant recognition, including the Carmen Alardín Northeast Literature Award (2004), the National Poetry Award Clemente López Trujillo (Yucatán Literary Biennial, 2004-2005), and the Tijuana National Poetry Award (2005). In 2006, she was a fellow of the Young Creators program of FONCA. She has also contributed to various magazines, including Blanco Móvil, Saloma Letras Entre Ríos, Shearsman, and Tierra Adentro.
She has authored eight of her own books and one in co-authorship. Her works include "Lo que no imaginas" (2005), "Palabras más palabras menos" (2006), "Nunca quise detener el tiempo" (2007), "Goliat" (2009), "Magnitud/e" (with Marco Antonio Huerta, 2012), "Antígona González" (2012), "Siam" (2012), "Abroche su cinturón mientras esté sentado" (2017), and "Un montón de escritura para nada" (2019). Some of her books have been translated into English, such as "I never wanted to stop time" (2012).
Brenda Navarro: Born 26 February 1982, Navarro is a Mexican writer, sociologist, and economist. She researches and writes about women's labour, women's access to culture, digital rights and humanities, and migration. Her novel Empty Houses won the English Pen Translation Award in 2019. She studied sociology and economy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She then studied for a Master's degree in gender and citizenship at the University of Barcelona. She currently resides in Madrid.In 2016 she founded #EnjambreLiterario, a group of writers who promote writing by women.
Her debut novel Empty Houses was translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes and won the English Pen Translation Award in 2019. It is set against the backdrop of Mexico's war on drugs. Her second novel Ceniza en la boca (Ash in the Mouth) was released in spring 2022. It focuses on Ulysses syndrome – a chronic stress disorder that affects immigrants. Winner of Premio Tigre Juan (2020) and English Pen Translation Award (2019)