El lugar del otro/The Place of the Other: A Bilingual Book Launch and Reading of Award Winning Chilean Literature in Translation.

This book launch and reading was a major component of Pía Barros’s visit to Bentley in February, 2013. In 2010 Barros published her most recent short story collection, El lugar del otro, which received Chile’s esteemed Altazor Prize in 2011 (equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize in the US). In 2012, she released a bilingual second edition of the text, translated into English by Dr. Jane Griffin (Assistant Professor at Bentley University) and Dr. Resha Cardone (Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southern Connecticut State University). Dr. Cardone, also an expert in Chilean women’s literature, provided a scholarly introduction, situating both this book and Barros’s larger oeuvre into the greater context of Chilean literary history and women’s writing. After this scholarly introduction, Barros read sections of the book in Spanish and Dr. Cardone and Dr. Griffin read sections from their English translation. The event culminated with a small reception of light refreshments.