Yuri Herrera - starting a new novel
Looking to Mexican political history for his new work with a New Orleans twist
Yuri Herrera is a political scientist, editor, and prize-winning novelist, considered one of the most relevant Mexican writers in the Spanish language.
When we meet him he's starting his new novel, which he says will take him in a different direction to his previous books, basing it on Benito Juarez, the first President of Mexico of indigenous origin. What's less known about him is that he was exiled briefly, in 1853, to New Orleans where Yuri now lives. We join him as he walks the streets Benito would have walked, searching for inspiration as he embarks on his writing.
Presented and produced by Betsy Shepherd
Executive produced by Rebecca Armstrong for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
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