Join award-winning journalist Javier Sinay and translator Robert Croll as they discuss Sinay’s new historical true-crime investigation The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America. This is an in-person event hosted by the the Consulate of Argentina in NYC.
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When: April 13 at 6:00 pm EST
Where: The Consulate of Argentina, 12 West 56th St, New York NY 10019
Javier Sinay is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. His books include Camino al este, Cuba Stone (coauthored), and Sangre joven, which won the Premio Rodolfo Walsh of the Semana Negra de Gijón, Spain. In 2015 he won the Premio de la Fundación Gabo/former FNPI for his story “Rápido. Furioso. Muerto” (Fast. Furious. Dead) published in Rolling Stone. The Murders of Moisés Ville is his first book in English. Visit loscrimenesdemoisesville.com and javiersinay.com to learn more about The Murders of Moisés Ville and Sinay’s other works.
Robert Croll is a writer, translator, musician, and artist originally from Asheville, North Carolina. He first came to translation during his undergraduate studies at Amherst College, where he focused particularly on the short fiction of Julio Cortázar and contemporary Latin American literature. He has worked on texts by such authors as Ricardo Piglia, Hebe Uhart, Julio Cortázar, Gustavo Roldán, Javier Sinay, and Juan Carlos Onetti.
By Javier Sinay
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll
Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the “Jerusalem of South America,” and his personal connection to a defining period of Jewish history in Argentina.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062987
Publication date: Mar 29, 2022