Writers@Grinnell Welcomes Carlos Gamerro on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.

Carlos Gamerro is this year’s Grinnell College fellow at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, a program sponsored by the Institute for Global Engagement. From Sept. 5–Oct. 10, he will be teaching a short course seminar on “The Vanish Narrator” in the English department (295-01) on Thursday afternoons.

Gamerro will discuss writing and read from his work during the afternoon event as part of the Writers@Grinnell series. The reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing. The events are free and open to the public.

Born in 1962, Gamerro studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught until 2002. His novels in English, all translated by Ian Barnett, include The Islands (And Other Stories),The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón (And Other Stories) and An Open Secret (Pushkin Press). In addition he has published several other novels and collections of essays on Argentine literature. Along with Rubén Mira he wrote the film script for Tres de corazones (2007), directed by Sergio Renán, and he has translated works by Graham Greene, W. H. Auden, Harold Bloom and Shakespeare. In 2007 he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and in 2008 participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2011 his theatrical version of The Islands premiered at the Teatro Alvear in Buenos Aires, directed by Alejandro Tantanian. He was the co-author of the catalogue of the 11th International Biennale of Lyon, and participated at the International Congress of Writers in Edinburgh. He has been translated into German, French, English and Turkish.