Ithaca College

Learn about the conflict in El Salvador through a first-hand account by novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya, a dissident Salvadoran writer who went into exile after receiving death threats for writing about the dangers of unchecked nationalism.

Castellanos Moya will read from his writing and engage in discussion on Monday, October 1, at 4:00 p.m. at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery in the Gannett Center. This event is free and open to the public.

About the author:
Horacio Castellanos Moya is the Pittsburgh City of Asylum writer-in-residence. He is considered one of the most important Central American writers alive today. A biting satirist critical of both ends of the political spectrum, "he writes from the bowels of one of the many volcanoes that pepper his country," wrote Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. Castellanos Moya has published five short story collections and eight novels, among them Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador, which earned him death threats for exposing links between right-wing leaders and organized crime in El Salvador and forced him into exile. His novel Senselessness will be published in English in spring 2008 by New Directions.

This event is sponsored by the Departments of Politics, Modern Languages, and English, and the Latin American studies program, in conjunction with Ithaca City of Asylum's "Voices of Freedom" event on September 30, 3:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St.