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Gabriela Wiener at PEN World Voices Festival Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition

  • WESTBETH ARTISTS HOUSING AND CENTER FOR THE ARTS 55 Bethune Street New York, NY, 10014 United States (map)

Gabriela Wiener, author of Sexographies, will be participating in PEN World Voices Festival’s Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition. Residents of New York City’s historic Westbeth Center for the Arts open their homes to Festival-goers for this perennial favorite festival event. Join your fellow writers and readers in the West Village, grab a map, and wander through the hallways of the city’s oldest and largest artists’ community for intimate, salon-style readings and discussions by Festival authors, including Felicity CastagnaInês PedrosaRodrigo Rey RosaPajtim StatovciNajat El HachmiWu Ming-yi, and others. This uniquely immersive literary experience concludes with a special reception in the Westbeth Gallery.

09 MAY 2019

6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

WESTBETH ARTISTS HOUSING AND CENTER FOR THE ARTS 
55 BETHUNE ST. 
NEW YORK, NY 10014

 $20

Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) is author of the crónicas collections Sexografías, Nueve Lunas, Mozart, la iguana con priapismo y otras historias, and Llamada perdida. Her work also includes the poetry collection Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu. Her latest book is Dicen de mí (2017). She writes regularly for the newspapers El País (Spain) and La República (Peru). She also writes for several American and European magazines, such as Etiqueta Negra (Peru), Anfibia (Argentina), Corriere della Sera (Italy), XXI (France), and Virginia Quarterly Review (United States). In Madrid, she worked as editor of the Spanish edition of Marie Claire. She left the magazine in 2014 to work on her first novel.

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