La Ninfa Eco Podcast – Episode 8: “Literature, Writing & Congresses”

Join us on this wonderful episode about Literature, Writing & Congresses, a talk about literature, the academic community, the writing process, and literary congresses.

Special Guests: Gabriela Leighton, Mariah Whelan, M. T. Ahmed Kaysher, Melanie Márquez Adams.
Host: Gaby Sambuccetti
Co-Hosts: Ezequiel Wolf. Enrique Bernales Albites.
Day: 12th August, 2021
Time: 9.30 pm (UK Time) – 5.30pm (Argentina)

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Dr. Gabriela Leighton holds a BA in Letters and is a Public Translator from the National University of Buenos Aires, and a PhD in Letters from the University of Luton, United Kingdom. She is a poet, a professor and senior researcher at the National University of San Martín in Argentina, head of the CEPEL, Centre for Language Studies, Vice Rector of Research at the University of Morón. Her main lines of research are postcolonial women’s writing in English, university evaluation, the teaching of foreign languages in areas of social vulnerability and gender. She is a visiting researcher at the Universities of Lancaster and Liverpool and was board of Imperium magazine, among others. She has been part of academic and scientific committees of many national and international congresses.

Mariah Whelan (Oxford, UK) is a poet and writer based in Oxford. She is the author of the love i do to you which was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize, won the AM Heath Prize and was the Oxford Poetry Library’s Book of the Month in February 2020. She holds degrees from Queen’s University Belfast, The University of Oxford and a PhD from The University of Manchester where she completed a creative-critical thesis on trauma and representation in contemporary fiction. Mariah is the Jacqueline Bardsley Poet-in-Residence at The University of Cambridge and one of the founding editors of bath magg, a digital magazine of the best new UK and international poetry.

T M Ahmed Kaysher (Bangladesh) is a poet, fiction-writer, film and literature critic as well as the director of Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indian Music, one of the leading Indian classical as well as global music promoters in UK. Both his poetry and prose are critically acclaimed for his new approach of weaving and new style of narrative.  Apart from writing and promoting Indian classical music in the West, Kaysher’s contribution to the world music is significant, too,  for his pioneering role of introducing Bengali Folk Music in the world-stage through hosting world-class events and festivals in major mainstream venues as well as adapting, directing, performing and promoting Bengali opera for global audiences. He is now entirely devoted in adaptation, direction, re-construction of  myths, ritual, fables through new production of Bengali rural theatre (Opera/ Ballad) for global audience along with his ongoing  film-writing and directing projects. With few other film enthusiasts, he led a film movement at ShahJalal University and founded an organisation called Chokh Film Society in mid ’90s. Kaysher co-edited an experimental literary publication called Paradigm in the early ’90s, too. Kaysher has been curating many major festivals all around the UK e.g. Baul and Vaishnav Music Festival, Ghazal Thumri and Kheyal Festival, Bangla Music Festival, RadhaRaman Folk Festival, International Dance Festival, The Gronthee International Poetry Festival etc. He is the key organiser of RadhaRaman Festival, the largest Bengali cultural event in the North. Graduated in Chemical Engineering at ShahJalal University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh and postgraduate in management at University of Bedfordshire in UK,  Kaysher now works for local government in library and information services.

Melanie Márquez Adams is an Ecuadorian American writer, editor and translator. She is the author of the short story collection Mariposas Negras, and two essay collections, El País de las  Maravillas and Querencia: Crónicas de una Latinoamericana en USA. She holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. More recently, her work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Laurel Review, Huellas Magazine, and Escritorxs Salvajes: 37 Hispanic Writers in the United States. An International Latino Book Award winner, Melanie translated the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race for Vintage Español. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Hosts & Co-hosts:

Gaby Sambuccetti (Argentina) is an Argentine-born, UK-based writer. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from Brunel University (London), she is a Latin American & Spanish Literature Teacher (Argentina) and she is currently starting a MA Modern Languages, Literature and Culture at King’s College (London). She used to be the former co-director of events at the Oxford Writers’ House (Oxford, UK) a hub that used to bring Oxford Universities and local communities into dialogue through creative writing projects. In 2019, She has been invited to the House of Lords (UK) to be part of a discussion about writing and freedom of the press. Her books, reviews, collaborations appear in different magazines, anthologies and literary projects from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Germany, Bolivia, the US, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Bangladesh, India & the UK. She is the founder of La Ninfa Eco with a team of writers from Europe, the UK, the US and Latin America.

Ezequiel, Wolf (Argentina) is an Argentine-born, Hungary-based writer. He is a broadcaster producer and poet. He hosts and produces many radio shows and podcasts, such us “No Retornable” [non recyclable]. “RadioyPunto.com” [Radio&Dot], “Habladurías del Mundo” [Gossip of the world], “Maldormidos” [Poor Sleeping Habits], “Radio con vos” [Radio with You], “La frontera” [The border], among many others. He is the author of different books and anthologies, being the most recent one called ‘Meanwhile’ (Indómita Luz Publisher). He obtained a scholarship in the Spanish Philology Department at Szeged University where he is a current resident.

Dr. Enrique Bernales Albites (Peru, Lima, 1975) earned his PhD in Spanish from Boston University in 2009. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Spanish at University of Northern Colorado. He reorganized the Mythical Peruvian Poetry Group Immanence with the Peruvian Poet Florentino Díaz Ahumada in 2020. He has published the poetry books: Immanence (1998, 2020), Immanence: Return to Ouroborea (1999), 21 poems: Cerridwen (2004), Return to Big Sur (2019), Seventh Poem (2020), the novel The Occupied Territories (2008), and the Anthology of Peruvian Poetry, The clocks are broken (2005). He is a columnist in ViceVersa Magazine where he shares chronicles, interviews and other content of interest. He is Editor & General Coordinador @ La Ninfa Eco USA.