Forma parte de una velada literaria con el escritor salvadoreño Manlio Argueta, quien está visitando Boston para participar en varios programas organizados por Boston University. La iniciativa Voces Hispánicas del Departamento de Estudios de Lenguas Romance de BU, presenta al afamado escritor quien pertenece a una generación de luchadores sociales que denunció las dictaduras, sufrió exilio y regresó a servir a su país.
Argueta es ahora el director de la Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador y un intelectual que tiene mucho que contar y compartir con la comunidad hispanohablante e inmigrante de este país.
La cita es el jueves 1ero de diciembre a las 5:00pm en el College of Arts and Sciences, Room 132 (1st floor), Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Este es un evento gratuito.
Manlio Argueta is one of Central AmericaÂ’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-1950Â’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 countryÂ’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 SalvadorÂ’s National Library, a role in which he has worked hard to rebuild the countryÂ’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 governmentÂ’s Orden de Mérito Cívico and the Casa de las Américas novel prize (Caperucita en la zona roja, 1978).
