# Juan Villoro
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Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz (born 24 September 1956, in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among a wider readership has grown since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo.
== Biography ==
juan villoro received his bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa campus.
March 2022 - Nearing Normal
This week Jacob and Kelsey discuss TikTok, book bans, and all the transitions that SJPL will be going through in March 2022, and celebrate the return of in-person programming!
Links for this episode:
SJPL Website
Events Calendar for Library Programming
VOTE NOW in our March Madness Tournamen…
What's in a Name?
Our assignment for this episode is to read a book by an author with a first name that appears on the list of most popular baby names of the year we were born. We ended up with a Daniel, a David, a Jennifer, and a Juan. What books may be on your list?
Books mentioned on this episode: Ishmael by Da…
GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAL -- the episode about football (we won't call it soccer)
The ball is round, the world and gods are too, and so we give in to our sporty instincts and talk about football, Qatar, sports fiction, and when you listen to this, one of the hosts will be on his way to watch the finals live. Happy Holidays to all our listeners!!!!
Juan Villoro -- God is Round
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122. The Wild Book by Juan Villoro
We're closing out our spring semester of children's classics with one final book about a book—and another richly imagined story in translation, The Wild Book by Juan Villoro. This modern story reached great acclaim in Mexico, with an English translation finally reaching America in 2017. We found th…
#115: From the BTBAs to the Soccer Pitch
This week's podcast opens with Chad and Tom discussing the 2016 Best Translated Book Award winners and their thoughts on how to evaluate books for the prize. Then, in a separately recorded podcast, Chad and visiting guest George Carroll talk with Juan Villoro about his new book on soccer, God Is Ro…
The DNA of Mexico City - Part I
At the turn of the 20th Century, Mexico City had a population of around 500,000 people and there are now over 21 million people who call the megacity home. It is the largest city in the Americas, it is the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world and it is the world's oldest capital city.
We be…
The DNA of Mexico City - Part II
Welcome to Part II of The DNA of Mexico City. This is the episode where we explore the kinds of traits and characteristics that Mexico City has inherited through its history and where we might see, feel and experience them today.
If our first episode on The DNA of Mexico City could be summarised …
The DNA of Mexico City - Part III
We trace and explore the social patterns and mindsets in Mexico City. We want to know, how and where is The DNA of Mexico City expressed, how can it be felt and experienced? In particular, we ask, where does that survival instinct reveal itself, how does it manifest?
We are joined by Tatiana Bil…
002 - The Wild Book & Maeve in America
Despite the thousands of books that are published in English each year, I truly believe readers are missing out if they don't explore translated works or authors from countries besides their own. This episode looks at The Wild Book by Juan Villoro and Maeve in America by Maeve Higgins.
Amores Perros - A Maximalist Masterpiece That Does Not Mean "Love Dogs"
Did you know people HATE Alejandro González Iñárritu's films, walked out of Amores Perros during its Premiere, and stopped being friends with Cole because of it? And on that note: we dig into why a movie this technically towering is so hard to actually love.
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Amores Perros (2000), st…
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