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This bilingual panel at the Tucson Festival of Books features two award-winning writers born in México as they discuss their books set on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Dos reconocidos escritores mexicanos hablan de sus libros que toman lugar en la frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos en esta discusión bilingüe del Tucson Festival of Books.

Authors: Álvaro Enrigue, Luis Alberto Urrea

Moderator: Victor Mercado

There will be an opportunity to get books signed after the panel. 

Habrá oportunidad de que los autores firmen libros después del panel.

For more information, visit Tucson Festival of Books 2026.

Para más información, pueden visitar el siguiente enlace: Tucson Festival of Books 2026.

Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recently released novel is “Now I Surrender." He is also the author of “You Dreamed of Empires.” His work has appeared in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.

Two sure signs of spring in Tucson? White flowers will appear on our saguaros and Luis Alberto Urrea will appear at our festival of books. The author of "Good Night, Irene," "The House of Broken Angels," and The Devil's Highway," Urrea will be making his 17th straight visit in March. Urrea lived here while writing "The Hummingbird's Daughter" in the early 1990s. Welcome back, Luis Urrea!