We are proud to present, as part of the Tucson Humanities Festival and the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona, a reading by Juan Villoro & Francisco Cantú. This will be a bilingual reading in both Spanish and English.

Juan Villoro is Mexico’s most prolific, prize-winning author, playwright, journalist, and screenwriter. He has written columns for Reforma (Mexico), The New York Times, El País (Spain), and El Mercurio (Chile), among others, and taught at Autonomous Metropolitan University, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, as well as at the New Journalism Foundation, created by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. His books have been translated into numerous languages and have been awarded the Mazatlán Prize for Literature (Mexico), the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Mexico), the Herralde Prize (Spain), the ACE Award (Argentina), and the José María Arguedas Award (Cuba). In Chile, he won the 2012 José Donoso Ibero-American Prize and the 2018 Manuel Rojas Prize for his body of work. His journalism has been recognized with the King of Spain International Journalism Award, the City of Barcelona Award, the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán International Journalism Award, and the Fernando Benítez Tribute at the International Book Fair. His novel for young people, The Wild Book, has sold more than a million copies.  He is the author of more than 40 books, including most recently El Partido Del Fin Del Mundo.

Francisco Cantú is a writer, translator, and the author of The Line Becomes a River, winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright, a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, an Art for Justice fellowship, and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano Literature. His writing and translations have been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Review, Granta, Guernica, and VQR, as well as on This American Life. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona, where he now works as an assistant professor of creative writing and co-coordinator of the Field Studies in Writing Program and the oral history archive DETAINED: Voices from the Migrant Incarceration System. He is the translator of Juan Villoro’s The Game at the End of the World. 

In addition to the in-person reading, all Reading & Lecture Series events are streamed live on our website.