Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera the author of the critically acclaimed What If Latin America Ruled the World? (Bloomsbury, 2010) winner of the Frantz Fanon Award, and Story of a Death Foretold. The Coup Against Salvador Allende (Bloomsbury, 2013) shortlisted for the 2014 Bread & Roses Award. Both books were listed among the best non-fiction publications of the year by The Observer and the Financial Times, respectively. More recently, In Defence of Armed/Art Struggle (Bogota: UTadeo, 2019), “A Future for the Philosophy of Liberation” in Decolonising Ethics (Pennsylvania University Press, 2020), and the first book of the poetic novel trilogy Night of the World (The 87 Press, 2021). He's currently working on Book 2 of the trilogy. He’s a Fellow of the RSA and Professor of Political Philosophy & Human Rights at Birkbeck College, University of London. His play Funk was produced and performed in the 2017 Global Art Forum, in Dubai. His filmography includes An Organisation of Dreams (Ken McMullen, 2010) and Hamlet Within (Ken McMullen, 2022). He wrote and directed the 5-episode docu-series Art & Fire: A Journey in Five Films, co-produced with Hay Festivals, available at hayfestival.com