Latin American Journeys: Memory & Belonging

03/01/2026
60 min
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Join authors Jordan Salama, winner of this year’s Peter Gilbert Prize, awarded by the Woolf Institute for his piece published in Jewish Renaissance magazine, and Eduardo Halfon for a conversation with literary translator Daniel Hahn about the interweaving of family, memory and identity across generations. Salama traces his Arab-Jewish heritage from Syria and Iraq to Argentina, uncovering lost family stories in Stranger in the Desert. Halfon, in Tarantula, reflects on the afterlives of the Holocaust in Guatemala, exploring how literature illuminates the complex legacies of migration, memory and belonging

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Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with about a hundred books to his name. He is the author of If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and co-editor with Padma Viswanathan of the Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories, both out in 2026. Image © Camila Franca Photography

Jordan Salama

Jordan Salama is a writer who frequently contributes to The New Yorker and National Geographic. His first book, Every Day the River Changes about a journey down Colombia’s Río Magdalena and the people who live along its banks, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021 and a top new travel book by The […]

Eduardo Halfon

Eduardo Halfon is one of the great global writers of his generation. He is the author of fifteen novels examining questions of identity, memory and history as a Jewish man, as a Guatemalan, as a descendant of European and Middle Eastern refugees, including The Polish Boxer, Mourning and Canción. He was named one of the […]

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Latin American Journeys: Memory & Belonging

03/01/2026
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Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with about a hundred books to his name. He is the author of If This Be...

Jordan Salama

Jordan Salama is a writer who frequently contributes to The New Yorker and National Geographic. His first book, Every Day the River Changes about...

Eduardo Halfon

Eduardo Halfon is one of the great global writers of his generation. He is the author of fifteen novels examining questions of identity, memory...