Authors
Valerie Mejer Caso Poet Mexico
Valerie Mejer Caso was born in Mexico City in 1966. She came from a family of European immigrants, and this is relevant in her work, This Blue Novel, a family saga treated as a series of shipwrecks. She has authored seven additional collections of poetry. Among them, Rain of the Futures was published by Action Books in 2014 and was edited by C.D. Wright. Michelle Gil-Montero who translated This Blue Novel and Edinburgh Notebook in English won the Pen/Heim Award for best translated poetry book in 2017. Mejer Caso has also collaborated with several photographers such as Barry Shapiro and Russel Monk. From December 2016 to March 2017 she participated in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India with her multimedia installation, “Untamable Light.” Mejer Caso also won the “Gerardo Diego 1966” International Award (Spain) and was the recipient of three grants from The National Council for Culture and the Arts in Mexico.
Participation Program
[Writers in Conversation]
[Writers in Conversation]
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ 이상우
Meeting with Writers
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ 이상우
Opening Ceremony