The New York City launching of Oneyda Gonalez‘s groundbreaking volume Una biografía coral sobre Severo Sarduy, on the life of the late prominent Cuban writer Severo Sarduy. A novelist, poet, and essayist, Sarduy (1937-1993) is widely recognized as the creator of the Neo-Baroque in Latin American literature. Enhanced by a an in depth introduction by González, the book is a collection of eye-opening interviews with the writer’s acquaintances, classmates, and literary friends, including his lifelong partner, the French editor François Wahl, who offers testimony of Sarduy’s working method and private universe.
The author will be interviewed by poet and essayist Lourdes Gil, who will also moderate a Q&A with the audience.
This special literary event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
St. John’s in the Village Church
LECTURE HALL
222 W. 11th St., at Waverly Pl., NYC
(Enter through Horsewalk)
FREE ADMISSION
Please RSVP at: info@cubanculturalcenter.org
Oneyda González is a Cuban writer and documentary filmmaker. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Mujer adentro and Cetedral sumergida. She coordinated the collection of essays Escrito sobre un rostro, which marked the rediscovery of Severo Sarduy in Camagüey, his native city. She has published Las cinco y una noches and Cuentos claros (fiction); Seres en el borde (essays); and Polvo de alas: El guión cinematográfico en Cuba, a compilation of interviews with directors, screenwriters, and movie critics. She was awarded Princeton University’s Friends of the Princeton Library Research Grant for her documentary Severo secreto, and for her volume of interviews Una biografía coral sobre Severo Sarduy, published this year by Ediciones Rialta. La revista Alas tensas includes her series of stories and photographs “Nomadismos”, where she explores the diasporic condition.
Lourdes Gil is a poet and essayist. Her poetry collections
include Anima vagula and Empieza la ciudad, among
others. Her poetry has been widely anthologized,
and her essays on the art and literature of the
Cuban diaspora have been included in numerous journals
and encyclopedias. Her many awards include a writing
fellowship from the Ford Foundation. She has had a long and distinguished academic career as professor of Latin American Studies at Baruch College, CUNY, where a scholarship fund
was established in her name, and as director of the
Literature Program of the Cuban Cultural Center of New York until 2021.
This event is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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