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Christopher Louis Romaguera

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Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer who was born in Miami, Florida, and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. Romaguera has been published in Passages North, Catapult, Boundless 2024, and other publications. He is an alum of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) and was a 2023 Periplus Fellow. His translation of the novel, Charras: A True Novel of the Assassination that Roiled the Yucatan, was published by UNO Press in 2025.

 

    

Schedule

10:15 am to 11:15 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent A
Echoes of Atrocity: Fact Based Novels of Police Brutality, State Corruption, and Political Violence
Christopher Louis Romaguera, Charras: A True Novel of the Assassination that Roiled the Yucatan by Hernán Lara Zavala
John Warner Smith, Murders at Mer Rouge
Amos Jasper Wright IV, The Battle of Danziger Bridge: A Novel
with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

11:30 am to 12:15 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Charras: A True Novel of the Assassination that Roiled the Yucatan by Hernán Lara Zavala

Charras is the true story of Efraín “El Charras” Calderón Lara, a twenty-six-year-old union leader and student activist, and the Yucatean government’s successful plot to kidnap and murder him. Acclaimed Mexican novelist Hernán Lara Zavala combines real-life newspaper articles and interviews with renderings of key events, laying the state-sanctioned narrative of Charras’s death beside the actual experiences of those involved. To kaleidoscopic effect, Zavala enters not only the mind of the hero but also those in his orbit: the governor of the Yucatán, Charras’s bureaucrat brother-in-law, even the mercenary hired to carry out the kidnapping―the chilling “you” whose point-of-view the reader must inhabit to unravel what took place during that fateful spring of 1974. Translated by Christopher Louis Romanguera.