Good Immigrants | An Evening with Mariana Villas-Boas
About this Event
🎟 This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! An RSVP grants general entry, but seating is not guaranteed, so please try and show up early.
About The Book
Good Immigrants is a literary art book that explores what it means to be an immigrant woman in Zurich, Switzerland. Through eight compelling vignettes, Villas-Boas transforms ordinary encounters—a job workshop, a train ride, a police letter about recycling—into poignant reflections on belonging, identity, race, gender, language, and class. Both intimate and universal, the book speaks to broader experiences of migration, estrangement, and navigating unfamiliar social structures. The publication also pays tribute to the work of French-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga, whose practice examines power, collective memory, and systems of control.
About The Author
Mariana Villas-Boas (b. 1979) is a Portuguese fiction writer interested in interdisciplinary forms of literature. She lived in Zurich, Switzerland for seven years, before moving to Miami, Florida. Early in her literary career, she won the 2014 FNAC New Talent Award for short fiction written in her native Portuguese. For her work in English, she was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize, longlisted for the 2023 Disquiet Prize, shortlisted for the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Competition and longlisted for American Short Fiction’s 2022 Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize. Her work has been published in US literary magazines such as AGNI, American Chordata and Apple Valley Review, as well as European anthologies curated by Essais Agites and Zwischentext (Switzerland), Mslexia (UK) and FNAC (Portugal).
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