LACS Weekly Seminar

Readings from: Azares del cuerpo (2017) and Solo un poco aquí (2023) And a conversation with author María Ospina. Colombian writer and critic María Ospina will share excerpts from her two works of fiction, Azares del cuerpo (2017) and Solo un poco aquí (2023), followed by a Q & A.

About the Author

María Ospina is an Associate Professor of Latin American culture at the Department of Romance Languages and the Latin American Studies Program at Wesleyan University.

Publications

She is the author of the book El rompecabezas de la memoria: Literatura, cine y testimonio de fin de siglo en Colombia and has written numerous articles on nature, violence, and culture in contemporary Colombia. Her first book of fiction, the short story collection Azares del cuerpo (2017), has been published in Colombia, Chile, Spain, and Italy and was recently translated into English (Variations on the Body, Coffee House Press, 2021). Her novel Solo un poco aquí will be published by Random House Mondadori in April 2023.