{"id":688399,"date":"2025-04-14T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veq.ca\/event\/meet-the-author-morrin-centre\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:54:43","slug":"meet-the-author-morrin-centre","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/veq.ca\/fr\/event\/meet-the-author-morrin-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author &#8211; Morrin Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"tribe-events-single-event-title text-center\">Meet the Author: Margarita Saona<\/h1>\n<div id=\"post-66833\" class=\"post-66833 tribe_events type-tribe_events status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry tribe_events_cat-cultural-event cat_cultural-event\">\n<div class=\"single-event-top\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-sm-8\">\n<p>Come meet Margarita Saona at the Morrin Centre on Wednesday, March 20, 2024!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-sm-4 foreword\">\n<div class=\"social-share\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content\">\n<p>Margarita Saona, Peruvian author, will read from her short-story collection The Ghost of You, recently published in Canada by Laberinto Press, which focuses on underrepresented ESL writing and World Literature in translation. In her review of the book for the Miramichi Reader, Carrie Stanton wrote: \u201cThe Ghost of You\u00a0is a collection about loss \u2013 loss of time, of circumstances, of wishes, and of people, some of whom we may not have ever met, but we know intimately [\u2026] Margarita Saona is a masterful creator of story. Her use of language and form is unique, as is her skill with the application of sparse wording, which leads to a tremendous impact being felt by her reader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE AUTHOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66829\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66829 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Margarita-Saona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66829\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-66829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Mariana Bazo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Margarita Saona teaches Latin American literature in the department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. She is interested in issues of memory, cognition, empathy, and representation in literature and the arts. Her scholarly publications include\u00a0<em>Novelas familiares: Figuraciones de la naci\u00f3n en la novela latinoamericana contempor\u00e1nea<\/em>\u00a0(2004),\u00a0<em>Memory Matters in Transitional Per\u00fa<\/em>\u00a0(2014), and\u00a0<em>Despadre: masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana<\/em>\u00a0(2021). Her short stories have been collected under the title\u00a0<em>La ciudad en que no est\u00e1s<\/em>\u00a0(2020), published in English translation as\u00a0<em>The Ghost of You<\/em>\u00a0(2023). She has also published the poetry collection\u00a0<em>Coraz\u00f3n de hojalata\/Tin Heart<\/em>\u00a0(2017), which received the Luces award for the best Peruvian poetry collection of the year. She is currently working on an essay on medical interventions entitled\u00a0<em>Of Monsters and Cyborgs<\/em>\u00a0and a multi-genre memoir on the experience of heart transplantation. She has been recognized twice by the Council of Excellence in Teaching and Learning and received the 2022 Amauta Tumi Award for outstanding teachers granted by the Peruvian community in the U.S. She has been a fellow of the UIC Institute for the Humanities on three occasions, including this year for her project on illness and writing. She is also one of the fellows of The Patient Revolution, an initiative by Dr. Victor Montori from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to seek ways to transform medical care systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and does not require registration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event is held in partnership with the D\u00e9partement de litt\u00e9rature, th\u00e9\u00e2tre et cin\u00e9ma de la Facult\u00e9 des lettres et des sciences humaines from Universit\u00e9 Laval.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Author: Margarita Saona Come meet Margarita Saona at the Morrin Centre on Wednesday, March 20, 2024! 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