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Inclusive Reading Club: Campus Read - Javier Zamora's "Solito: A Memoir"

Inclusive Reading Club: Campus Read - Javier Zamora's "Solito: A Memoir"

Instead of our regular meeting, please register below to attend the event!

View the Padlet: https://padlet.com/salvelibrarian/april-2024-irc-solito-campus-read-7j057yxhlk5ro9i

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Reception and Meet and Greet (Ochre Court, Great Hall)- https://events.salve.edu/event/solito-a-memoir

Lecture (O'Hare Academic Center, Bazarsky Hall)- https://events.salve.edu/event/solito-a-memoir-9553

Rhode Island Center for the Book and the Pell Center presents an evening with Javier Zamora, the author of Solito, the 2024 selection for Reading Across Rhode Island's all-state read. Zamora will be in conversation with Jim Ludes, the Executive Director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy discussing his migration from El Salvadore to the United States at the age of nine.

Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. When he was a year old, his father fled El Salvador due to the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). His mother followed in her husband’s footsteps in 1995 when Javier was about to turn five. Zamora was left in the care of his grandparents who helped raise him until he migrated to the US when he was nine. His first poetry collection, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, September 2017), explores some of these themes.

In his debut New York Times bestselling memoir, SOLITO (Hogarth, September 2022), Javier retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually through the Sonoran Desert. He traveled unaccompanied by boat, bus, and foot. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants.

Zamora was a 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O'Connor), MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation (Ruth Lilly)Stanford University (Stegner), and Yaddo. He is the recipient of a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowshipthe 2017 Narrative Prize, and the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign.

Date:
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Time:
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Categories:
  Library Event > Inclusive Reading Club     Salve Department/Club Event > Campus Read