A lecture by Manlio Argueta
The Department of Romance Studies of Boston University is pleased to announce a lecture by
Manlio Argueta
“Mirando hacia el futuro: reflexiones sobre el papel de la cultura y del arte en el desarrollo de la sociedad civil centroamericana”
Manlio Argueta is one of Central America’s greatest living writers. Born in San Miguel, El Salvador, in 1935, Argueta was a member of the “Generación Comprometida” that arose in El Salvador in the mid-1950’s and that included other prominent Salvadoran writers such as Roque Dalton, Roberto Armijo, and Italo López Vallecillos. Author of many volumes of poetry and nine novels, he is perhaps best known for Un día en la vida (1980). Translated into fifteen languages and taught at universities throughout the world, the novel depicts the terrible repression in the Salvadoran countryside just prior to the beginning of the country’s civil war (1980-1992). During his years in political exile in Costa Rica, Argueta was the Director of EDUCA, a key Central American academic and literary publisher, and taught at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Since the year 2000 he has served as the Director of El Salvador’s National Library, a role in which he has worked hard to rebuild the country’s civil society in the post-war era. Argueta has lectured and done readings of his work throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe. His Poesía completa was published by Ediciones Hispamérica of the University of Maryland in 2005. Among the many awards and prizes he has received are the Spanish government’s Orden de Mérito Cívico and the Casa de las Américas novel prize (Caperucita en la zona roja, 1978).
When: Tuesday, November 29, 4:30 PM
Where: College of Arts and Sciences, Room 132 (first floor)
Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue
(Public transportation: the nearest “T” stop is “BU Central” on Green Line “B”)
(The lecture forms part of the Voces Hispánicas/Hispanic Voices initiative of the Department of Romance Studies of Boston University, made possible by the generosity of Santander Universities Global Division)