Peruvian Immigrants in the US
jue, 22 may
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Ga
Carlos Villacorta and Oswaldo Estrada will present their most recent fiction, ALICIA ESTO ES EL CAPITALISMO (Miami: Suburbano, 2025) and DREAMS IN TIMES OF WAR / SOÑAR EN TIEMPOS DE GUERRA (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2025). Reading and discussion in Spanish and Spanglish


Time & Location
22 may 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Ga, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Oswaldo Estrada (Santa Ana, California, 1976) is a Peruvian-American writer. He is the author of a children’s book, El secreto de los trenes (2018), and of three collections of short stories, Luces de emergencia (2019), Las locas ilusiones y otros relatos de migración (2020), and Las guerras perdidas (2021). He has edited the volume Incurables. Relatos de dolencias y males (2020) with twenty Latin American authors who live in the US. In 2020, he won two International Latino Book Awards, as well as the International Latino and Latin American Book Fair Prize from Tufts University. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. His book Las guerras perdidas won a Gold Medal (First Place) for Best Collection of Short Stories in Spanish at the International Latino Book Awards 2022. He is the author of the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (2023), and a professor of Latin American…