Writer Teresa Dovalpage, author of the novel A Girl Like Che Guevara, will read from her work as part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt.
Dovalpage will appear at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in Room 101 of Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The reading is free and open to the public. Audio will be recorded for podcasting at VUCast, the website of Vanderbilt News Service, at www.vanderbilt.edu/news/.
Dovalpage, a native of Havana who now lives in Taos, N.M., has written one English and two Spanish-language novels and has a book of short stories, Por culpa de Candela y otros cuentos escandalosos, set to be published this year by Floricanto Press.
A Girl Like Che Guevera, set in 1980s-era Havana, follows a 16-year-old Cuban girl who yearns to emulate Che Guevara.
Each semester the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt brings writers to campus to read from their work and visit classes.
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