Evento

Narrating Peruvian Reality: A Conversation with Alonso Cueto

Monday, April 30, 6:30 pm
Instituto Cervantes
31 West Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60654
FREE and open to the public. RSVP at BPT
In Spanish
Alonso Cueto (Lima, 1954) has written seventeen books, most of which are fiction. Some of his novels include La Hora Azul (2005 Herralde Prize for Novel), El Susurro de la Mujer Ballena (2007), and La Segunda Amante del Rey (2017). Three of Cuetos novels have been made into films. His works have been translated into eighteen languages. He has received a Guggenheim Writers Grant and the Peruvian Government Medal for Service to Culture. He is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language.
César Ferreira is Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he teaches contemporary Latin American Literature. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Peru, (2003) and editor of volumes on the works of Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Julio Ramón Ribeyro and Antonio Skármeta, among other Latin American writers. He is also a member of the editorial board for the journal World Literature Today.
Rocío Ferreira teaches Latin American literature at DePaul University in Chicago where she is currently the Director of Graduate Programs in Modern Languages. Her scholarly work concentrates on contemporary Latin American literatures, cultures, and visual arts. Her areas of teaching and research focus on topics related to Latin American literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, gender theory and literature. Her current book-length project entitled Yuyanapaq/Para Recordar/To Remember: Memory, Displacement, and Political Violence in Contemporary Peruvian Culture addresses the fundamental question of recent cultural responses the Peruvian armed conflict history (1980-2000