Title: Juan Felipe Herrera: 2013 National Book Festival (Spanish)
Speaker: Juan Felipe Herrera
Series: 2013 National Book Festival
Date: September 10, 2013
Running Time: 13:13 minutes
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Description:
Francisco Macias from the Library of Congress speaks with Juan Felipe Herrera, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Biography:
Juan Felipe Herrera is the Poet Laureate of California. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Half the World in Light" (2008) and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1990, Herrera was a distinguished teaching fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and he has taught elsewhere, including in prisons. His latest collection is "Senegal Taxi (Camino del Sol)."
About the 2013 National Book Festival
The 2013 National Book Festival was held on Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Our podcast series features one-on-one chats with some of this year’s featured authors.
