Adventure into the unknown

Passionate Nomads follows Merlin the Magician and his ward, the fairy Rosaura dos Carballos, daughter of Morgan Le Fey, as they depart the Old World and set off on a journey through the modern Americas in search of the legendary Ranquel Indians. As they attempt to reconcile the past and the present, they encounter lost manuscripts and the ghosts of past adventurers.
In this presentation, María Rosa Lojo will read from her novel and reflect on the process of its translation into English. She will be joined by the translator, Brett Sanders, Jay Miskowiec, editor of Aliform Publishing, and Rosa Tezanos-Pinto (Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis). This translation has received a grant from Programa SUR, a translation support program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Culture of Argentina.
María Rosa Lojo is one of contemporary Latin America's most unique narrative voices. She has won numerous awards for her fiction and poetry both in Argentina and abroad and in 2010 received the Bicentennial Award for her contribution to Argentine culture. She is also a professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires and a frequent contributor to academic and literary magazines and journals. Brett Sanders is an award-winning translator and author, as well as a contributing editor at Tertulia Magazine. His other translations include María Rosa Lojo's poetry collection Esperan la mañana verde (Awaiting the Green Morning).
-- "Passionate Nomads is a most extraordinary addition to the literature of the New World. To bring Merlin the Magician and a daughter of Morgan Le Fay to 20th-century Argentina might be merely whimsical, but then to revive the Indians of the pampas along with a 19th-century general who both wrote about them and helped massacre them takes fictional daring of a high order...A profound fantasy of the real -- not a rewriting of history but an imaginative recall and understanding of what has been forgotten, cannot be remembered and yet must be remembered." - Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea and Catwing series (from jacket)
-- "A fantastical medieval fiction that breaks into Latin American reality with humor and imagination." - Ana Clavel, author of Shipwrecked Body and Desire and Its Shadow (from jacket)
-- "A profound meditation on existence. " -La Gaceta (Buenos Aires)