Talk: "Fiebre de carnaval - una conversación con Yuliana Ortiz Ruano"

You are invited to a conversation with Ecuadorian novelist and poet Yuliana Ortiz Ruano. In this conversation, Ortiz Ruano will discuss her recently translated novel Carnaval Fever (Soft Skull Press, 2025), her practice as a writer, and the intersections of decolonial thought and Black and Caribbean intellectual traditions in Latin America.

Yuliana Ortiz Ruano is an Afro-Ecuadorian writer, poet, and teacher, as well as a DJ of Afro-Caribbean music. She has published several books of poetry and prose. She was selected by the International Writers in Residence program in Granada, Spain in 2023, and was chosen for the Translator Choice II award at the LATINALE Latin America Literature Festival in Berlin. Her first novel, Carnaval Fever, won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award (Ecuador), the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award (Italy), and the PEN Translation Award (UK).

Organized by the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese and cosponsored by the UCLA Barbra Streisand Center for the Future of Women in Society and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.