There’s something that happens at the FIL-you meet with lots of people you care about, and with readers. María Fernanda Ampuero (MFA): This year, in particular, was very difficult, and coming here is like being able to breathe. Victor Meadowcroft (VM): What brings you back to the Guadalajara Book Fair (the FIL) each year? Having met María at the Guadalajara Book Fair in 2018, I caught up with her again this year following her participation in a fascinating panel discussion about narrative nonfiction- specifically, the nebulous boundary between fact and fiction-that was chaired by Jorge Volpi (Mexico) and also featured writers Leila Guerriero (Argentina), Javier Cercas (Spain), and Julián Herbert (Mexico). She is the manager of the Plan Nacional del Libro y la Lectura José de la Cuadra, an initiative that promotes reading and literary diversity in Ecuador, and is also one of the organizers of the Quito International Book Fair. Frances Riddle), will be published by the Feminist Press in 2020. María Fernanda Ampuero is an Ecuadorean author and journalist whose debut collection of short stories, Cockfight (tr. Read more about his experience at the book fair. Victor Meadowcroft attended the 2019 international book fair in Guadalajara, where he interviewed writers María Fernanda Ampuero and Ariana Harwicz, and publishers Diego Rabasa (Sexto Piso) and Carolina Orloff (Charco Press).
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