Fernanda Melchor on Reconciling Violence

Mar 3

“I think it has helped to talk about these things. To— to make peace with it. To make amends with it. Violence is part of human nature. I don’t think we can surgically take it away, I think it’s impossible. But I think that talking about this is important.”

Fernanda Melchor, born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, is a writer and journalist who lives and works in Puebla. In 2013 she published a collection of short stories and and a novel: Aqui no es Miami and Falsa liebre (both with Almadia), followed by Hurricane Season in 2017, for which she won the Anna Seghers Award and a place in the shortlist for the International Booker Prize.

Jordan Kisner

Fernanda Melchor on Reconciling Violence

“I think it has helped to talk about these things. To— to make peace with it. To make amends with it. Violence is part of human nature. I don’t think we can surgically take it away, I think it’s impossible. But I think that talking about this is important.”

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