This Mexican Author Says Languages Are Tools to Start a Bilingual Conversation William Troop and Betto Arcos - WLRN.org
go to original May 22, 2015

Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza speaking to a panel at the 2015 LéaLA Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles. (Betto Arcos)

Cristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer and professor who has developed her career on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Her novels in Spanish have won literary awards in Mexico, and she’s taught writing both in Mexico and the United States.

So she knows what it’s like to work and write in both Spanish and English. Producer Betto Arcos caught up with her at LéaLA, the Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles, and asked her what it's like being a published author in two languages, and how living on both sides of the border has affected her work.

Read an edited transcript of their conversation at WLRN.org

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