Description: Picador Guest Professorship for Literature at Uni of Leipzig is aiming at conveying and critically reflecting on Anglo-American Literature.
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Salvador Plascencia and Nancy Campbell in conversation with Svenja Gräfen
Picador Guest Professor Salvador Plascencia meets Samuel Fischer Guest Professor Nancy Campbell for a conversation about the art of writing and the interplay of design and literature. Svenja Gräfen hosts the conversation that will take place on June 8, 7 pm, at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig. Get your tickets here .
Salvador Plascencia was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and grew up on the outskirts of Los Angeles. He is the author of the cult favorite “The People of Paper”, named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Financial Times. “The People of Paper” has been translated into a dozen languages and widely anthologized and adopted in Chicanista, postmodern, and design courses. T.C. Boyle said, “ The People of Paper is a novel like no other… Calvino, Borges, and García Márquez w