WOMEN'S RIGHTS ALLEY/“The Indestructible Summer of Liliana” — author's meeting with Cristina Rivera Garza

TypeLiterature

LocationCinema Hall 1

Hour

18

Datum 24.10.2026

Price

7 PLN

LITERARY MEETING

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On July 16, 1990, the victim

Liliana Rivera Garza was killed in femicide. A young twenty year old girl,

architecture student killed in Mexico City by her ex-partner, boyfriend,

whom she met while still in high school and who wouldn't let her walk away from each other.

Cristina Rivera Garza, a Mexican novelist, decides to tell

The story of Liliana, her sister, who, like so many other women, did not

She has received justice.

Balancing on the border of literature

of fine and non-fiction, the author analyzes the notes, talks with friends

sisters and loved ones, gets acquainted with the extensive literature on violence

to women, and all in order to reconstruct the life of a brilliant and courageous

of the girl and inscribe her story in a broader socio-cultural context.

“Indestructible

Summer of Liliana” is above all

a story about love, life and the struggle against an oppressive system that has been persecuting for years

women. Patriarchy. (publisher's description)

The book was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the memoir category. She was included in the final of the National Book Award in the category

nonfiction. She won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize, the Literary Award

Mazatlán, Xavier Villaurrutia Award granted by the association

“Writers for Writers”, Alfonso Reyes Prize of the State of Nuevo León, Ibero-American

The José Donoso Literary Prize.

The book was published in Poland in

September 2026, translated by Aleksandra Wiktorowska, in the publishing house

ArtRage.

hosted by: Ita Wachowska

timing

duration: 90 min/age: 16+

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

(b. 1964) — Mexican writer, author of novels, essays, poems, translations

and critical literary texts. International recognition was brought to her by her novel

“Nobody will see my tears” (1999), which Carlos Fuentes called one of

the most outstanding works of Spanish-language literature of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Winner of numerous literary awards, including twice the Juana Inés Prize

of the Cross. Belongs to El Colegio Nacional, a prestigious Mexican institution

bringing together the most outstanding figures of the world of science and culture. Since 1989

lives and creates in the United States. Professor of Literature and Founder

Creative Writing Program in Spanish at the University of Houston.

ITA WACHOWSKA — Hispanic scholar, literary scholar, teacher

academic and researcher of Spanish literature and culture

Latin American, works in the Department of Hispanic Studies (IJILR) at

UAM in Poznań. Author of scientific articles and critical works, among others

contemporary Spanish prose that takes into account the category of memory, and

politicality. Editor of monographs and comparative studies on

Spanish and Hispano-American literature — in Polish “Mario Vargas Llosa: in the circle of creativity” (2013)

and “A Book for Juliet. Cortázar after years” (2019). Feminist and

co-organizer and participant of, among others, protests in defense of women's rights, rights

reproductive, sexual education.

On a cobalt background, on the left, the inscription “avenue of women's rights”. On the right is the cover of the book “The Indestructible Summer of Liliana” by Cristina Rivera Garza. The cover has a coral color. In the middle of it is a small black and white photo of a woman with glasses.