Mexico in a Nutshell: Mexico City Through its Literature | Online Workshop

Mexico in a Nutshell: Mexico City Through its Literature, is a dynamic journey through Mexico’s history as seen through the lens of literature. Held via Zoom by writer Roberto Frías over ten engaging sessions, this course explores key historical moments, social transformations, and cultural identities by analyzing emblematic Mexican books. Through guided discussions, participants will gain a deeper understanding of Mexico’s past and present while discovering how literature reflects historical memory.

Open to audiences of all backgrounds, this course offers an accessible and compelling way to experience Mexico through its literature.

Ten sessions of 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Every Wednesday from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (EST) via Zoom.
$100 attendance fee 

The Zoom link will be provided when registration is completed along with the necessary materials for the course.There are no refunds for this course. If you would like to donate your spot, send us a message!

ABOUT ROBERTO FRÍAS:

Writer, editor, journalist, translator, cultural manager and audiovisual creator.

Roberto wrote weekly, from 2019 to 2022, about Mexico City for the cultural channel Canal 22 and also hosted and directed the brief television series México 1521 hoy – Mexico 1521 Today.

He has translated Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Hanif Kureishi, Francisco Goldman, among others. He has twice received the prestigious grant of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA), awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, in the field of literary translation. 

Roberto lived in Barcelona between 2001 and 2010, where he began his collaboration as a consultant, translator, editor and writer with prestigious publishing houses in Spanish, such as Anagrama, Penguin Random House, Atalanta, Galaxia Gutenberg, Acantilado, Libros del asteroide, Alfaguara, among many others.

He has been a journalist since 1991, publishing essays, reviews, and literature, film and dance reviews. Also chronicles and reports on social, scientific, gastronomic and travel topics in media such as the literary supplements Cultura/s --La Vanguardia, Barcelona-- and Confabulario --El Universal, Mexico--, as well as the magazines Letras libres, SoHo, Chilango and National Geographic Traveller, among others. He currently coordinates the journalistic coverage of the activities of CulturaUNAM, the university’s cultural activities department, for Gaceta UNAM.

As a cultural manager, Roberto has been coordinator of the Chair Max Aub of Transdiscipline in Art and Technology, as well as coordinator and curator of several festivals at CulturaUNAM. He was also a member of the organizing committee for the Octavio Paz Centennial, a national tribute to the Mexican Nobel Prize winner, among other positions.

He has been a resident at the Writer’s Centre, Norwich, UK; Yaddo, New York; Banff Centre, and the Sun Yat-sen University’s International Writers Residency, Guangzhou, China.

He is currently working on several novel and short story projects.