Acclaimed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes
Noted author Carlos Fuentes to speak Mar. 27 at UTSA
(Jan. 22, 2002)--Acclaimed Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes will speak on "U.S. and Mexico: Sharing a Border" at 6:30 p.m. Mar. 27 in the UTSA Convocation Center on the1604 Campus. Fuentes is considered one of the most important contemporary voices in Latin American literature. He was originally scheduled to speak last Sept. 14, but cancelled the engagement due to the events of Sept. 11.
Born in 1928, Fuentes spent his youth in Washington, D.C., where his father was posted as a Mexican diplomatic representative. As a teen, Fuentes lived in Argentina and Chile, as well as his native Mexico. Fuentes' roving childhood existence led to an education received partly in English and partly in Spanish.
These early experiences gave Fuentes his unique hemispheric perspective. Few Latin American writers have such an intimate knowledge of Americans or see the American/Latin American cultural dynamic with the great depth that has earned Fuentes a reputation as Mexico's most famous living novelist.
Fuentes' works include over a dozen novels, beginning with his classic, "La region mas transparente"/"Where the Air is Clear" in 1958. Others include, "Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone," "La Muerte de Artemio Cruz," "Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories," "Distant Relations," "Change of Skin," "Terra Nostra," The Old Gringo" and "New Time for Mexico." His credits also number several volumes of short stories, plays and numerous essays on literary, cultural and political topics.
A former Mexican ambassador to France and a law school graduate, he began his literary career by composing bawdy, English limericks while a student at a British school in Santiago, Chile. But reading the works of legendary Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires convinced the then 14-year-old Fuentes that Spanish was his language, and so it became the one in which he has penned his prolific body of work.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by UTSA, the Mexican Cultural Institute, the San Antonio-Mexico Friendship Council and the San Antonio Express-News. For more information call (210) 227-0123 or (210) 227-0124.
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