Fiction reading and book-signing by award-winning author Yuri Herrera

Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera will give a fiction reading, followed by a book-signing and reception, on November 13, 2024, in the University of South Alabama’s Student Center Terrace Room at 5:30 p.m.  Herrera has written three novels, all of them translated into several languages: Kingdom Cons, Signs Preceding the End of the World, and Transmigration of Bodies; which have been published in English by And Other Stories. In 2016 he shared with translator Lisa Dillman the Best translated Book Award for the translation of Signs Preceding the End of the World. That same year he received the Anna Seghers Prize at the Academy of Arts of Berlin, for the body of his work. His latest books are A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire, Ten Planets, and La estación del pantano (Season of the Swamp). He is a professor of creative writing and literature at Tulane University, in New Orleans.