Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU, by the Editors of WLT

Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU, by the Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Mon, 01/13/2025 - 09:20 Author photo by Germán NájeraThe 2025 Puterbaugh Lit Fest will return to the University of Oklahoma March 3–4 when Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and essayist Guadalupe Nettel visits the Norman campus. Called “one of the most original voices in Latin American literature,” Dr. Nettel (b. 1973) is the author of award-winning novels and collections of short stories translated into more than twenty languages; many of her works have been adapted for theater and film. She’s served as the editor of cultural and literary magazines such as Número Cero and Revista de la Universidad de México. Still Born, her most recent novel, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize. In April 2025 Bloomsbury will publish The Accidentals, a new collection of her short stories translated by Rosalind Harvey. Nettel lives in Paris as a writer in residence at Columbia University’s Center for Ideas and Imagination. Nettel will deliver “Writing with Light,” the 2025 Puterbaugh lecture, at 10:30 a.m. on March 4 at the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Other highlights of the festival include a talk by Harvey, Nettel’s principal English-language translator; a roundtable discussion of contemporary Mexican literature; and a reception featuring comments by Edurne Pineda, Honorary Consul of Mexico in... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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