Inaugural Lecture of the LAC Academic Year: ON THE PECULIARITIES OF LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE

Tuesday 14 October, 5:00pm
Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Héctor Abad Faciolince

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Photo taken by Daniela Abad

Hector Abad Faciolince is a Colombian writer, translator, and journalist. He has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and the University of Iowa in the United States.  Among his most widely read books, translated into English, are Oblivion.  A Memoir; Recipes for Sad Women; and The Farm.  His two most recent books are a chronicle of a trip to Ukraine that ended in tragedy, Ahora y en la hora, which narrates the last days of the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amélina, and a short novel in which an elderly retired philosophy professor, outraged by the famine in Palestine, tries to smuggle food into Gaza: Con tres dedos se escribe. Abad Faciolince, born in Medellín in 1958, began various careers in his country (Philosophy, Medicine, Journalism), but finally graduated in Modern Languages ​​and Literature from the University of Turin, Italy.