Our Keynote Speaker:
Mexican Novelist Rosa Beltrán
Rosa Beltrán is a Mexican writer, journalist, translator, and professor of Comparative Literature at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). She received her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California Los Angeles in 1993. She is the author of three books of short stories, La espera (1986), Amores que matan (1996), and Cambios cosméticos (2006).
Her short fiction has been translated into English, French, Dutch, and Italian. In 1995 she received the prestigious Premio Internacional de Novela Planeta/Joaquín Mortiz for her first novel La corte de los ilusos; her second novel, El paraíso que fuimos, was published in 2002, and her third Alta infidelidad, in 2006.
Her book of essays on comparative American topics, América sin americanismos (Mexico City, UNAM, 1997), was awarded the Florence Fishbaum Award., and in 1994, she was recognized by the American Association of University Women for her literary critical work on twentieth century women writers.
Rosa Beltrán is currently working on a historical novel based on the trials and tribulations of the nuns who secretly inhabited the Convento de Santa Mónica in the city of Puebla.