31 W Ohio
Chicago, Illinois 60654

Acclaimed Peruvian author, Jorge Eduardo Benavides, will lead two different 3-hour creative writing workshops providing a rare opportunity for Spanish language learners and Spanish language writers to explore universal and personal issues in writing, largely relating to—but not solely—writing in Spanish, regardless of level of proficiency, experience or professionalism in language or in writing. His novella, La paz de los vencidos, won the 2009 Central Reserve Bank of Perú Julio Ramón Ribeyro Prize for Short Novels. Workshops will be conducted in Spanish.

Added by Instituto Cervantes on October 15, 2011