Eduardo Halfon in Conversation with Héctor Hoyos and Vered Shemtov

Speakers: Eduardo Halfon (Writer), Héctor Hoyos (Stanford U.), and Vered Shemtov (Stanford U.)

Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala in 1971. He studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University. Named one of the best Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá, he is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and of Spain's prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel. The Polish Boxer, his first book to appear in English, was a New York Times Editor's Choice selection and was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. Halfon currently lives in Nebraska and travels frequently to his native Guatemala.
Vered Karti Shemtov is the Eva Chernov Lokey senior lecturer in the departmet of Comparative Literature and the Middle Eastern Program at Stanford University.
Héctor Hoyos is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Stanford University.
"Guatemala may be tranquil, but Eduardo Halfon is a narrative volcano." - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
"Hell of a writer, that Halfon, his words are dry like pebbles." - Le Figaro
"Halfon and his silent and precise prose, crumbling foreing universities, revealing the unknown.' - El País
"[Halfon's work is] tight and lean...falling somewhere between the novels of Roberto Bolaño, WG Sebald, and Junot Díaz." - Telegraph