Winner of the 2023 Franz Kafka International Literary Award, Jorge Luis Arcos‘s El Castigo has been highly praised for its unique and undefinable structure, encompassing the genres of essay, memoirs, epistolary, and novel all at once. Subtitled ‘Letters Exchanged with Lorenzo García Vega and Other Texts, or How to (Re)Construct (Imagine) a Canon,’ the book […]
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PREMIO FRANZ KAFKA: ‘EL CASTIGO’, DE JORGE LUIS ARCOS
Saturday, September 14, 2024 at 5 pm
THE IRISH CUBAN CONNECTION IN 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK
Monday, September 23, 2024 at 7 pm
An illustrated presentation by John McAuliff on the parallel paths followed by Cuba and Ireland in their struggle to seek independence from their colonial masters in Spain and England. The presentation will reveal the role of Irish Cubans in the American revolution, and will focus on how their aspirations for a free Cuba were manifest […]
‘ONE BRILLIANT FLAME,’ BY JOY CASTRO
Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 7 pm
An in-depth interview with Joy Castro about her critically acclaimed new novel, One Brilliant Flame, inspired by actual events. Set in 1886, the booming cigar industry makes Key West the most prosperous city in Florida. The city also serves as a rebel base for the anti-colonial insurgency in Cuba. Against the backdrop of the Great […]