Claudia Salazar Jiménez 
Blood of the Dawn 

This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what’s known as “the time of fear” in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed conflict in the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.

About the author

Claudia Salazar Jiménez was born in Lima, Perú, in 1976. Currently based in New York, she studied Literature in the National University of San Marcos and has a PHD in Literature from NYU. Salazar Jiménez is a literary critic, cultural manager, and the founder and director of PERUFEST, the first Peruvian cinema festival in New York. Her short stories have appeared in several online publications and in international anthologies, and her debut novel,
Blood of the Dawn, was awarded the Americas Narrative Prize in 2014.

Elizabeth Bryer, author of essays and short fiction as well as a translator, writes about memory, identity and cultural imaginings; the ways we are shaped by place, history, myth and politics; and the interstices of science and art, and culture and nature. She has written for Hotel Amerika, Sydney Review of Books, Seizure, Meanjin, Griffith REVIEW, Etchings, Mascara Literary Review, Kill Your Darlings, HEAT, harvest and Inside Story. Her work has also been broadcast on ABC Radio National and anthologised in Best Australian Science Writing. She is a contributing editor to art and literature magazine Higher Arc; a volunteer at 100 Story Building; and from 2010 to 2014 ran Plume of Words, a blog about reading, writing and translation that is now archived by the National Library of Australia. In 2016 she is the recipient of an Australian Society of Authors Emerging Writers’ Mentorship, and of part-funding from Copyright Agency’s Creative Individuals Career Fund to attend the Middlebury Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference in Ripton, Vermont, USA. In 2015 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Development Grant and a Creative Victoria Vic Arts grant, and also undertook residencies in St Petersburg, Bulgaria and Iceland.