
Bio Élmer Mendoza Born in Culiacán, Mexico, in 1949, Élmer Mendoza is considered one of the greatest representatives of the so-called narcoliterature. He holds an honorary PhD from the Universidad…
“Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo”. This famous line is the beginning of one of the best novels of Mexican literature, Pedro Páramo (1955), by Juan Rulfo. A quote that draws the first brushstrokes of that enigmatic and sonorous topography that represents Comala. A mythical space where whispers and gloomy voices sketch the nature of Rulfo’s universe.
But beyond this fictional landscape, Comala also becomes a symbol of the Mexican collective imagination. Thus, our objective in the podcast Encounters in Comala is to travel, decipher and try to understand some of the cultural, political and social particularities of the Mexican geography through a quarterly meeting with some of the most important contemporary voices of literature and cinema in Mexico.
Bio Élmer Mendoza Born in Culiacán, Mexico, in 1949, Élmer Mendoza is considered one of the greatest representatives of the so-called narcoliterature. He holds an honorary PhD from the Universidad…
Bio Laura Baeza Laura Baeza was born in June 1988 in Campeche, Mexico. Storyteller, poet, editor and also violinist, she graduated in Literature from the Autonomous University of Campeche and…
Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez Astrid Rondero, producer, and Fernanda Valadez, director, as well as screenwriters of last year’s most successful feature film at the Ariel Awards with nine awards,…
For the second episode of our podcast we are pleased to have an interview with the recent winner of the Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso 2021, the writer Cristina…
At the launch of our podcast we had the opportunity to talk with Mexican writer and professor Jacobo Sefamí.