Join the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Stone Center for Latin Ameircan Studies to a talk by writer, anthropologist, and editor Karina Pacheco, moderated by Fernando Rivera.
Karina Pacheco is one the most renowned Peruvian writers of the last decade. In 2022 her novel El año del Viento won the National Literature Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Peru. She also has published the novels Las orillas del aire (2017); El bosque de tu nombre (2019); Cabeza y orquídeas (2012); La sangre, el polvo, la nieve (2022); No olvides nuestros nombres (2015) and La voluntad del molle (2006). Her short story collections include: Niños del pájaro azul (2024); Lluvia (2018); El sendero de los rayos (2013), winner of the Premio Luces from El Comercio in 2013; and Alma alga (2010). Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals in Latin America, United States, and Europe, and some have been translated into French and English.
Karina Pacheco studied Anthropology at the National University of San Antonio Abad (Cusco) and holds a PhD in Anthropology of the Americas from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has edited K’intu. Historias, memorias y recorridos de la hoja de coca. Antología, siglos XVI-XXI (2022), and is the author of Historia del Parque Nacional Bahuaja Sonene y de la Reserva Nacional de Tambopata (2017); Racismo, discriminación y exclusión en el Cusco (2012); Incas, indios y fiestas (2007); and La diversidad oprimida (2006).
Also, she directs Ceques Editores, an independent publishing house specializing in Literature, History, and Anthropology, for which she has translated from English and French The Inca Civilization in Cuzco by Tom Zuidema; the new edition of La Vision des Vaincus; as well as Paradis du Nouveau Monde by Nathan Wachtel.
