MartÍn Caparrós
Full visit: March 7-11, 2022

• Prolific novelist
• Narrative journalist
• ADW-PAL term: 2019-25
• Subject Area: Humanities
• Faculty host: Edmundo Paz-Soldan (Professor, Latin American Literature, Dept. of Romance Studies)

MartÍn Caparrós is a distinguished Argentine author, writer, and narrative journalist, and one of the fundamental Latin American voices of our time.  In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot award by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, for outstanding reporting on America; specifying work on his nonfiction book-length work El Hambre (Hunger: The Mortal Crisis of Our Time, 2016), in which the author visits both the richest and poorest people of the earth in order to explore why hunger is one of today’s big unresolved issues. He has written more than 30 books -novels, essays, nonfiction- published in more than 30 countries. His most recent, Ñamerica (Barcelona, 2021), is a lengthy attempt to describe and analyze the present of Latin America.

He was the recipient of the prestigious Herralde Prize (2011) for his novel, Los living; the Planeta Prize (2004) for his novel, Valfierno; the Tiziano Terzani (Italy, 2016) and the Caballero Bonald (Spain, 2016) for Hunger; and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1994). He is “Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires”. His expertise interconnects with a range of cross-disciplinary topics including inter-American dialogue, food insecurity, and climate change.