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It was known as the sonorous name of "Boom".
There were moments of stunning quality in Latin American literature, and "remains, to this day, the most important Latin American cultural movement of the last century."
Now, when the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Time of the Hero", the Chair Vargas Llosa and Spanish Cultural Action (AC / E) meet to 46 writers and critics of Spain and Latin America, to honor this cultural phenomenon and analyze the legacy they have left in Latin American culture in recent times.
Writers and scholars have gathered in several Spanish universities, which have given them an honorary doctorate to Vargas Llosa, this week to study this phenomenon and to pay tribute to Spanish.
Vargas Llosa and the University of Murcia
On 7 October 2010 the Swedish Academy gave to Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel Prize for Literature.
It was also a month of October, but in 1995, when Mario Vargas Llosa became the sixteenth Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Murcia, being therefore one of the first who gave this award to the writer.
For years, their presence at the University of Murcia has been steady, and almost familiar figure on our campus.
Proof of their relationship with the center was the establishment, in 1996, Vargas Llosa Award novel, instituted by the Mediterranean Savings Bank, which award annually since then, the work of an author in Spanish.
Another award - "The Lituma" - carried in our university the name of the protagonist of one of his novels.
Acts in the UMU
At the University of Murcia will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, November 7.
The acts of this center have been organized by Professor Florit Francisco Durán, professor of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, and corresponding member of the Chair Vargas Llosa.
It will be in the Graduate Hall School of Law, at 9:30 am, and his lectures were broadcast live: http://tv.um.es/directo
Later, at 11:30 pm in the Board Room of the Law School, will give a press conference.
Speakers and conferences:
Alejandro Gándara: "The literal and magical."
(1957, Santander).
Novelist, essayist and journalist, promoter and promoter addition of various companies engaged in the research of literary creation, creative pedagogy and the promotion of culture.
He has written theater, textbooks and test genre which won the award Anagram (1998) by the first words of creation.
Andrés Andrés Ibáñez, "Cortázar:" Rise and Fall ". Was born in Madrid in 1961. Has authored, among others, of the novels The world music (Critical Eye Award), The World in the Age of Varick and Shadow Bird lira. His latest novel is The rain of the innocent.'s musical and literary critic at ABC.
Juan Carlos Chirinos: "Off.boom, Latin and literature beyond the explosion."
Chirinos (Valera, Venezuela, 1967) is the author of the novels The bad child count to one hundred and removed, and Nochebosque and read stories books cats, and zapping Homer trilingual Deaf.
He has written biographies Francisco de Miranda, the nomad sentimental Albert Einstein, letters likely to Hann, Alexander the Great, the keen desire to know, and Queen of the four names.
Alexander's mother Olympias.
Juan Carlos Mendez Guédez: "History impersonal boom" (or notes to read three novels after the boom). "Mendez Guédez (Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1967) is the author of novels like chulapos Mambo (2011) Perhaps the rain (2009 ), An Evening with bells (2004), Moon Tree (2000), Portrait of Abel with volcanic island in the background and the Book of Esther (2011). As a storyteller has published, among other titles, ideograms (2012) and So Long , Mr. Salinger (2007).
Professor at the UMU
On the other hand, Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Murcia, José María Pozuelo Yvancos, will speak on the 9th at the University of Valladolid with his lecture entitled: "The Postcolonialism in The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa ".
Pozuelo Yvancos is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature.
Is literary critic of the cultural supplement of ABC.
He has published twelve books on literary theory, contemporary fiction and history of Spanish literature.
His most recent work is literary ideas (1200-2010), the eighth volume of the History of Spanish Literature at the Editorial Review.
Source: UMU
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