Description: Guillermo Arriaga will read from his novels and engage in a conversation about his writing methods and the similarities and differences in writing for the page and for the screen.
Guillermo Arriaga is an acclaimed Mexican author, screenwriter, director, and producer. He received the 2005 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Screenplay for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. His novels, translated from Spanish, include Night Buffalo, A Sweet Scent of Death, and The Guillotine Squad.
Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado is a film scholar, critic, and programmer in Latin American, Latino, and independent documentary and experimental film. Before coming to Houston, she was the executive director of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in New York.
Tony Diaz is the founder and director of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say. He also hosts the weekly Nuestra Palabra radio show Tuesday nights on KPFT (90.1) in Houston and nationwide on www.kpft.org.
Founded in 1998, Nuestra Palabra (www.nuestrapalabra.org) showcases the best Latino literature and writers in monthly forums and presents the annual Edward James Olmos Book and Family Festival in Houston.
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