The Cuban Cultural Center of New York presents Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo as part of our series on Cuban writers born after 1959. The series focuses on the new generation exposed to a radically different social, cultural, political and educational system, as well as different literary influences and traditions than the various generations preceding it. Pardo Lazo will revisit works by Zoe Valdés, Eliseo Alberto, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and Jorge Alberto Aguiar Díaz, in relation to earlier writers such as Guillermo Rosales, Reinaldo Arenas, and Jesús Díaz.
The presentation will be followed by a live Q&A with Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, moderated by poet and essayist Lourdes Gil, head of our Literature Program.
This literary event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art,
and Literature.
DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, IT WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
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Photograph above: Uber Cuba 132, by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo was born in Havana in 1971, and studied Biochemistry at the University of Havana. He is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He has published several collections of essays and short stories, both in Cuba and abroad. Among them, Empezar de cero (2001), Mi nombre es William Saroyan (2006) and, more recently, Uber Cuba and Diario de Saint Louis, both in 2021.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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