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In the Studio: Yuri Herrera - starting a new novel

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Yuri Herrera - starting a new novel

12/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - In the Studio, Yuri Herrera - starting a new novel

Looking to Mexican political history for his new work with a New Orleans twist

Yuri Herrera is a political scientist, editor, and prize-winning novelist, considered one of the most relevant Mexican writers in the Spanish language.  

When we meet him he's starting his new novel, which he says will take him in a different direction to his previous books, basing it on Benito Juarez, the first President of Mexico of indigenous origin. What's less known about him is that he was exiled briefly, in 1853, to New Orleans where Yuri now lives. We join him as he walks the streets Benito would have walked, searching for inspiration as he embarks on his writing. 

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