Alberto Ruy Sánchez discusses his career, Mexico's literary tradition, the creative impulse and "Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador" with Luis Clemens from NPR at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Alberto Ruy Sánchez is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and essays from Mexico City. Since 1988, he has served as the editor-in-chief of the arts magazine Artes de México, which has won more than 150 national and international editorial awards. Sánchez has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gran Orden de Honor Nacional al Mérito Autoral, the José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature and the Premio Cálamo. The majority of his fiction works including his latest, "Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador", are set in Mogador, the ancient Arabic city now known as Essaouira and located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Sánchez currently lives with his family in Mexico.
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