The New York City launch of Uva de Aragón‘s memoirs of her life in Cuba until she was fifteen years old, when she went into exile. The author gives vivid profiles of her closest relatives, teachers, schools, and friends, as well as of her early readings and trips. With an agile prose and a fresh vision, she shares the pain of losing her father at an early age, evokes the illusions of her first loves, and reveals delicious anecdotes about important figures of Havana’s cultural elite that she had the privilege of knowing.
At a certain moment, the country’s public life enters fully into the intimacy of the home of the adolescent Uva, and her days unfold against the background of the political violence that was raging in Cuba at the time. These pages reflect a society and an era that, like the life of the writer, radically changed in Cuba in 1959, and perhaps, in the long run, in the entire world. The beaches, the Cuban fields and the mythical city that is Havana are also spaces recreated in these memoirs as a base for that kingdom of childhood that the author, already in full maturity, recovers and immortalizes.
Uva de Aragón will be introduced and interviewed by renowned Cubanologist Emilio Cueto. Following the presentation there will be a Q&A with the author, moderated by Marié Pereira, of our Literature Program.
This special literary event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, THIS PROGRAM WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
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Uva de Aragón (Havana, 1944) has written extensively as an academic, journalist and creative writer. She has published more than a dozen books of poems, essays, short stories, novels and a play, some of them translated into English. Several of her works appear in anthologies. For many years she wrote a weekly column for Diario Las Américas and El Nuevo Herald. Her blog Habanera soy http://uvadearagon.wordpress.com/ is read worldwide. Until her retirement in 2011, Dr. de Aragón was a professor and Associate Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. A graduate from the University of Miami, with a Ph. D. in Latin American Literature, she has received several literary awards. De Aragon has lived in the United States since 1959, when she left Cuba as an exile.
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This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.
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