39 REPLAY (English) Melissa Rivero- Discussion about Peruvian immigrants' representation in American Literature
Description
For the next weeks, we will be re-sharing the top 6 episodes of Peruvians of USA Season 2!
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Melissa Rivero is the author of The Affairs of the Falcóns, which won the 2019 New American Voices Award and a 2020 International Latino Book Award. The book was also longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Brooklyn, she is a graduate of NYU and Brooklyn Law School. Melissa currently works as in-house legal counsel at a startup. She still lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Connect with Melissa: IG @melissarivero_
Website: https://www.melissa-rivero.com/
In this episode:
- Melissa shares the inspiration and journey to write and publish her book, The Affairs of the Falcóns
- How writing - and other creative pursuits - can feel like a luxury or something only the privileged could do
- Her Pucallpa roots, growing up Peruvian in New York City, and now raising bilingual and multi-cultural children
- Book/Authors Recommendations:
- Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez,
- Cristina Garcia,
- Ada Limón’s Poetry,
- Mario Vargas Llosa,
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