Latin American Journeys: Memory & Belonging
Jewish Book Week
| Jordan Salama | speaker |
|---|---|
| Eduardo Halfon | speaker |
| Daniel Hahn | chair |
Two award-winning writers bring their reflections on identity and place to Jewish Book Week for a discussion on the complexities of family memory.
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.
This event will last approximately 1 hour, with no interval.
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Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
Jordan Salama
Jordan Salama is the author of Every Day the River Changes, a journey down Colombia’s Río Magdalena, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021. His essays and stories have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and other publications. Most recently, his story The Candy Sellers, an investigation into the lives of migrant families selling candy on the NYC subway, was on the cover of New York magazine. He lives in New York.
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, and as a descendant of European and Middle Eastern refugees, including The Polish Boxer, Mourning and Canción. He was named one of the thirty-nine most promising young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival in Bogotá and is a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. His work has been translated into sixteen languages. Tarantula is his latest novel.
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.