Interview with Oswaldo Estrada

Oswaldo Estrada is a writer and a full professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has won multiple awards and, most recently, edited a short story book titled Incurables. In this conversation with Vale, he talks about his work as an academic, his experience as a Peruvian immigrant and how it contributes to his creative writing, the current state of Latinx and Latin American literature, and more.​​

Interview ​by
Hector "Vale" Rendón
​11/25/2020

Hector "Vale" Rendón (Mazatlán, México) is a publisher, writer, academic, and journalist. He has written three novels and has lived in five different countries. During his years as a journalist, he worked for more than a decade as editor, foreign correspondent, TV reporter, multimedia reporter, and editor-in-chief for several media outlets. Then he joined academia and has worked teaching and doing research at higher education institutions for eight years; his main areas of academic study are focused on media narratives about minorities in different social contexts. Throughout his life he has received several awards and grants that support both his academic and creative work.​

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