Our Keynote
Edmundo Paz Soldán

We are delighted that the keynote speaker at SLAS 2025 will be Edmundo Paz Soldán, Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Latin American Literature at Cornell University. ​

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Professor Paz Soldán's keynote lecture, 'Narrating Environmental Disasters Today', will be available to the public via Zoom at this link. The lecture will take place from 5 - 6:15pm BST on Thursday 10 April 2025, and will be recorded and published on our website afterwards.

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Meeting ID: 923 7844 7315
Passcode: 961878

Paz Soldán is a winner of the Bolivian National Book Award (2003), and the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award (1997). He has published Alcides Arguedas y la narrativa de la nación enferma (2003), and is the coeditor, with Gustavo Faverón, of the volume of critical essays Bolaño salvaje (2008), and, with Alberto Fuguet, of the anthology of short stories Se habla español: Voces latinas en U.S.A. (2000). He teaches Modern and Contemporary Spanish-American Literature, Andean Literature, Narrative and Mass Media, Speculative Fiction, and Creative Writing. He is the author of fourteen novels (among them Área protegida, La mirada de las plantas, Los días de la peste and Norte), and six books of short stories (among them La vía del futuro, Las visiones, and Billie Ruth). His work has been translated into twelve languages.

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