please join us for a conversation between Álvaro Enrigue and Jonathan Blitzer on the life and work of Juan Carlos Onetti, and his collection A Dream Come True, translated by Katherine Silver.

Tuesday, January 21st
7:00pm
192 Books – 192 10th Avenue at 21st street

Álvaro Enrigue is an award winning novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The White Review, n+1, London Review of Books, El País, among others. His novel Sudden Death was awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into many languages. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City.

Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He won a 2017 National Award for Education Reporting for “American Studies,” a story about an underground school for undocumented immigrants. He is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award as well as the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation. His writing and reporting have also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Atavist, Oxford American, and The Nation.