Álvaro Enrigue and Rivka Galchen introduce South America’s greatest comic. Frank Wynne’s translation from the Spanish of Mafalda will bring readers into the life and mind of a six-year-old girl investigating the political wreckage all around her. Rabble rouser, chess enthusiast, passionate advocate for peace and the abolition of soup, Mafalda made her debut in early 1960s Argentina. In the next years she went world-wide, as Quino’s comic was translated into language after language. Mafalda became a symbol of curiosity, democracy, and free thinking. She was beloved by literary greats: Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Umberto Eco, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Isabel Allende have all praised her. Álvaro Enrigue and Rivka Galchen will discuss Mafalda and celebrate her arrival in English.