Acclaimed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes to speak at UTSA March 27
(March 18, 2002)--Acclaimed Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes will speak on "U.S. and Mexico: Sharing a Border" at 6:30 p.m. March 27 in the UTSA Convocation Center on the1604 Campus. Admission to the event is free and open to the public.
Fuentes, who is considered one of the most important contemporary voices in Latin American literature, spent his youth in Washington, D.C., and later lived in Argentina and Chile, as well as his native Mexico. Fuentes' roving childhood led to an education received partly in English and partly in Spanish, giving 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. His other works includes "La Muerte de Artemio Cruz," "Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories," "Change of Skin," "Terra Nostra," The Old Gringo" and "New Time for Mexico." His works also include several volumes of short stories, plays and 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 limericks in English 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 is sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute, UTSA, Associacion de Empresarios Mexicanos, San Antonio-Mexico Friendship Council, Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, World Affairs Council and San Antonio Express-News.
For more information call the Mexican Cultural Institute at (210) 227-0123.
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