Creative Writing workshop on autofiction with novelist Jorge F. Hernández

In this workshop, writer Jorge F. Hernandez will speak on his most recently published novel, El bosque flotante (The Floating Forest), a work of fiction that is based on his own life experiences.  Hernandez will then lead students in a hands-on workshop where they will begin to create their own work of ¨autofiction.¨

Biography:
Jorge F. Hernandez (Mexico City, 1962)
Hernández lived the first years of his life in Cologne, Germany, and from two to fourteen years old in Washington, D.C. He is a historian and his undergraduate thesis, La soledad del silencio. Microhistoria del Santuario de Atotonilco, was published in 1991, having won the National Prize for Regional History with Honorable Mention. La emperatriz de Lavapiés, his first novel, was published in Alfaguara in 1997, and in 2000 won the Efrén National Short Story Award Hernández for his story ¨Noche de ronda.¨ He is the author of five storybooks, two volumes of short stories and six books of essay and chronicle. He has been a collaborator in various media such as the magazines Vuelta by Octavio Paz and Cambio by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, as well as a columnist for the newspaper El Pais (Spain) and Milenio (Mexico).

WHEN:  Tuesday, February 15th at 11:30
WHERE:  Segovia Campus, SG-333 or online

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Co-hosted with: IE Campus Life, IE Book Club Mix

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