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TRES Y CONTANDO
Thursday, March 8, 6 pm
Instituto Cervantes
31 West Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60654
FREE and open to the public
For more information please visit http://chicago.cervantes.es
In Spanish with English translation available
Three and Counting is a literary conversation led by Mexican authors Sophie Goldberg, Sofía Segovia, and Paulina Vieitez, that aims to start conversations, link up minds, and join audience through reading around urgent issues, including language, identity, immigration, exile, etc. In conversation with readers and local authors, Three and Counting joins efforts to generate a reflection upon proposals that change environments, bring down physical and intellectual walls, and promote dialogue, equality and inclusion in response to violence and current and dangerous extremisms. Sophie Goldberg, Sofia Segovia, and Paulina Vieitez will leverage their three recent novels, Lunas de Estambul, El murmullo de las abejas, and Helena, to spearhead the conversation.
Born in Mexico City of Turkish and Bulgarian descent. She studied Communications at Anahuac University. In 1980 she moved to Austin, Texas, and graduated from Journalism for the University of Texas-Austin. Married to Moises Goldberg, she is the mother of three children. She has received several awards for her literary work and has contributed articles to a number of publications, combining her literary work with her role as Communications and Media President for several organizations. She published the poetry collection Vida y Pasiones: Testimonies of a Plentiful Life. She is also the co-author of Sefarad: Ayer, hoy y manana, an exploration of history of the Sephardic community in Mexico. Her novel Lunas de Estambul is currently in its fifth reprinting and has been translated to Serbian and soon to Turkish. Her novel had a US launch in November 2015 at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, as part of the Sor Juana Festival.
She is a graduate of Communications from University of Monterrey, and has leveraged her skills as a ghostwriter and media coordinator for local political campaigns. Her novel Noche de Huracan, published in 2010 will be republished in English in 2018. Her second novel, El Murmullo de las Abejas has become a bestseller in Mexico, other Spanish-speaking countries and the United States, and made best seller lists in Spain, apart from being listed as Novel of the Year by iTunes. She has toured Mexico, Spain, and the U.S. extensively. She was also named a story of succes by Mexican newspaper El Norte and UDEM, a Mexican writers guild, and was named one of Mexicos 31 most influential women in 2015, and one of the top 10 rising writers in 2016 by iTunes. Her third novel, Peregrinos, will be published in 2018. Since 2013 she runs and coordinates writing workshops for Fabrican Literaria and Literarlika. She is also a playwright. She currently lives in Monterrey, Mexico, with her husband, three children, and three pets.
A communications and journalism expert by trade, she started workin since she was 17 and is a founding staff member of Papalote, Mexico Citys Children Museum. She later became Editorial Manager for Origina magazine, a trade publication for communications experts. She moved on to become Editorial Director for Ediciones Vulcanos, the publishing arm of Mexicos Chamber of Steel Industries. She later founded her own publishing house, AdLitteram. A breast cancer survivor, she founded Quierete, a charitable foundation promoting self-esteem and preservation techniques for women undergoing cancer treatment. She launched and currently coordinates Circulo Sanborns, a loyalty program that has signed up over 1 million members in six years. For Sanbornos she also runs Charlas con Café, a literary and reading program that has interviewed over 750 authors a book fairs and other events. Her first novel, Helena, was published in March and is currently in its second reprinting, with the launching of a version for Spains market in the summer of 2018, and with a onstage version in process for Fall 2018. She is also a poet, and her debut poetry collection, Eros, delirios, suenos, will also be published in Spain in 2018.
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LocationInstituto Cervantes (View)
31 W. Ohio Street
Chicago, IL 60654
United States
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