The prolific Cuban writer Enrique del Risco makes his debut as novelist with Turcos en la niebla, awarded the prestigious Premio Unicaja de Novela Fernando Quiñones in Spain this year. It is a book that delves into collective and personal shipwrecks, and the means, or lack thereof, to survive them. The author’s narrative, a plot not bereft of humor, is interwoven with the stories of three friends (an art critic, a streetwise go-getter, and an Argentinian psychologist), a living fresco of the recent political and cultural history of the American continent and of everyday life in a Latin community by the shore of the Hudson river.
Joining del Risco in an engaging conversation will be the Spanish writer and critic Eduardo Lago, columinst for El País, and the renowned Cuban musician Paquito D’Rivera, who resides in the neighborhood where the novel’s characters interact.
This literary event is part of the CreateNYC Language Access program and it will be held in Spanish.
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Enrique Del Risco Arrocha. Bachelor in History (University of Havana, 1990) and Ph.D. in Latin American Literature at
NewYork University, 2005. His Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book under the title Elogio de la levedad. Mitos nacionales cubanos y sus reescrituras literarias en el siglo XX by Editorial Colibrí (Madrid, 2008). His essays has been published in academic publications in United States, México, Spain and France and the anthologies Cuentos completos de E. A. Poe. [commented edition] (Madrid, 2008), Aldabonazo en Trocadero 162 (Valencia, 2008), Todos los libros, el libro (Farmville, 2004) and Guayaba Sweet. Literatura cubana en Estados Unidos (Cádiz, 2003). He also has been co-editor of the Caribbean and North American short stories anthology Pequeñas resistencias 4, Editorial Páginas de Espuma. Del Risco is also autor of several fiction books Pérdida y recuperación de la inocencia (La Habana, 1994), Lágrimas de cocodrilo (Cádiz, 1998), Leve Historia de Cuba (Los Ángeles, 2007) and ¿Qué pensarán de nosotros en Japón? (Sevilla, 2008), a short stories collection, winner of the “Cortes de Cádiz” Ibero American prize. He has also published a memoir, Siempre nos quedará Madrid (New York, 2012), and two collections of satirical essays: El Comandante ya tiene quien le escriba (Miami, 2003) and Enrisco para presidente (New York, 2014). Mr. Del Risco currently teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU.
This event is co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes
And is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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