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Publisher of Restless Books and acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans presents his latest project, Popol Vuh: A Retelling, an inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation.

Cosmic in scope and yet intimately human, the Popol Vuh offers invaluable insight into the Maya way of life before being decimated by colonization. “Many translators, scholars, and poets have brought us close to the radiant eminence of our Mayan origin story, the Popol Vuh,” writes Frederick Luis Aldama. “None touch its wondrous dynamism and epic elegance like Stavans and Larios.”

Frederick Luis Aldama, editor of Latinographix and award-winning scholar author, joins Stavans at this special celebration of Popol Vuh and the Day of the Dead.

This virtual event is hosted by Diesel Bookstore in Santa Monica, California. Purchase Popol Vuh: A Retelling from Diesel.

When: Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 pm PT / 9:30 pm ET

Where: DIESEL, A Bookstore via Crowdcast

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin America and Latino Culture and the publisher of Restless Books. He has translated Lazarillo de Tormes, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Mariano Azuela, and Juan Rulfo into English, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop into Spanish, Yehuda Halevi and Yehuda Amichai from Hebrew, Isaac Bashevis Singer from Yiddish, and Shakespeare, Cervantes, and The Little Prince into Spanglish. His books include On Borrowed Words, Dictionary Days, Quixote, On Self-Translation, and The Wall. He edited the Oxford Book of Jewish Stories, the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, and Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, his work, rendered into twenty languages, has been adapted to film, TV, radio, and theater. 

Frederick Luis Aldama is Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio State University. He is the award-winning author, co-author, and editor of 48 books, including his first children’s book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020).  In 2018, Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics won the International Latino Book Award and the Eisner Award for Best Scholarly Work. He is editor and coeditor of 9 academic press book series as well as editor of Latinographix, a trade-press series that publishes Latinx graphic fiction and nonfiction. He is creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes in comics (Amazon Prime) and co-founder and director of SÕL-CON: Brown, Black, Indigenous Comix Expo. 

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