Hensli Rahn Solórzano
Venezuela, 1982. He is a fiction writer. He has published the collection of short stories Dinero fácil (Libros del Fuego, 2014) and the book of non-fiction Crónicamente Caracas (FCU, 2008). In 2016 he was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2024 he was a guest writer to the festival Leap Off Page, in Bulgaria. His short pieces have won awards in the USA and Venezuela. His texts appear in anthologies published in Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela. Among other media he has collaborated in Frictions, Latin American Literature Today, Zeit Online, and Papel Literario. Two of his short-stories were audio recorded in the collection The Palabra Archive, Library of Congress, USA. Selections of his work have been translated into English, German and Bulgarian. He lives in Berlin with his family
Rahn or the Epistolary Geographies of a Surname
Hensli and Pamela have never met in person, but they share a surname: Rahn. Two writers whose families emigrated to Venezuela a century ago, though their paths took different directions. He lives in Berlin; she still lives in Caracas. In this correspondence, they exchange thoughts on literature, memory, and uncertainty in times of rising extremism.
