
Alejandra Banca
@alejbanca
Leo, escribo, paseo, me pierdo y leo y escribo ✨🌿 | Desde la Salvajada 📖 @lecturasarraigo and also at @selkieshouse
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“She finally reaches her street and as she opens the door to her building she feels the levee break…” Read a story from the debut collection by Venezuelan writer Alejandra Banca, FROM SAVAGERY (Restless Books), translated by Katie Brown, in the new issue: latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2024/06/from-s…




#Edinburgh #bookfringe seats now available for Alejandra Banca #Venezuela winner of #EnglishPEN Award-winning stories #FromSavagery and #translator Katie Brown Weds 21 August 1pm lighthousebookshop.com/events/from-sa… #Migration #crisis #diaspora #Caracas #Barcelona #Madrid


In honour of #WITMonth, watch English PEN Award-winning translator Katie Brown read from her translation of #FromSavagery by Alejandra Banca from #Venezuela on Translators Aloud's #YouTube . youtu.be/XxPZA42rwgc?si…

Just 24 hours until our event at Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop Edinburgh with Alejandra Banca and English PEN Award-winning translator Katie Brown! lighthousebookshop.com/events/from-sa…


Thank you so much to the wonderful folk at the beautiful, radical Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop for hosting Alejandra Banca & I in discussion on From Savagery & to those who came & shared their own experiences of migration. There were many laughs and also a few tears.



Just 24 hours until our event with Burley Fisher Books with English PEN Award-winning translator Katie Brown in conversation with Alejandra Banca and Praveen Herat about #immigrantwriting and #translating experience. Register via the link below! burleyfisherbooks.com/products/immig…

Happy U.S. Pub Day to FROM SAVAGERY! In this English PEN Award-winning translation by Katie Brown (Katie Brown), FROM SAVAGERY announces Alejandra Banca (Alejandra Banca) as a resplendent and masterful new voice in Latin American literature—one that will take readers by storm.


"Electric, defiant, and singing with melancholia... throws its arms around a displaced generation of young Venezuelan migrants, reveling in the clamor and beauty of their day-by-day survival." Win a copy of Alejandra Banca's From Savagery from Restless Books librarything.com/ner/detail/510…


"the only thing keeping these characters afloat is the nostalgia for what once was and the bonds they form as they navigate abandonment" Maly Polotto reviews 'From Savagery'📕short stories by Alejandra Banca tr. Katie Brown pub. Selkies House Restless Books soundsandcolours.com/articles/venez…

Join us online for our first PILAS Reading Group event on Monday 4 November. In this meeting we'll be talking with Alejandra Banca and Katie Brown about their recently published work 'From Savagery'. Excited for this one 📖 Sign up link: pilas-reading-group.rsvpify.com



"Banca is not interested in painting the migrant life as one of pure struggle." Rose Bialer reviews Alejandra Banca's debut story collection, FROM SAVAGERY, translated from the Spanish by Katie Brown (Restless Books): full-stop.net/2025/02/11/rev….


For 3 days only beg. Saturday 22 February Waterstones runs its Spring online preorder campaign including the paperback edition of FROM SAVAGERY by Alejandra Banca trs. Katie Brown Enter promo code PREORDER25 at checkout to receive 25% off


Last day to use Waterstones online promo code PREORDER25 to receive 25% discount on the dazzling paperback of FROM SAVAGERY by Alejandra Banca translated by Katie Brown. English PEN winner.


En la sexta entrega de la serie de conversaciones con escritores emergentes, Lizandro Samuel entrevistó a la escritora venezolana Alejandra Banca (Alejandra Banca). Lee la entrevista aquí 👇 circuloamarillo.com/blog/alejandra…