TOMÁS ELOY MARTÍNEZ
| September 19, 2002 | Thursday 430 p.m. | ||
| Hesburgh
Center Auditorium Reality and Fiction: Santa Evita and Other Stories (presented in English) |
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| September 20, 2002 | Friday 4:30 p.m. | ||
| Dept.
of Special Collections, Hesburgh Library Cómo nace una novela" (How a Novel Is Born): On El vuelo de la reina and The Tango Singer (presented in Spanish) |
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| PAST SPEAKERS | ABOUT THE SERIES |
Tomás Eloy Martínez, Rutgers University Author, journalist, and literary scholar, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Rutgers University. Professor II, Director of the Latin American Studies Program with Honorary Ph.D.s from John F. Kennedy and Tucumán Universities, Argentina. Dr. Martinez recently won the important Alfaguara Prize for the Novel for his work El vuelo de la reina (novel 2002). He has also published El sueño argentino (essays,1999); Lugar común la muerte (short stories, 1998); Santa Evita (novel, 1995), which was translated to more than 30 languages); La mano del amo (novel,1991); The Perón Novel (1985, translated to 12 languages), among others. He has taught at University of Maryland and held visiting professorships at London University, Universidad de Guadalajara,and Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He was editor of magazines and newspapers, and currently is a regular columnist of La Nación de Buenos Aires, El País de Madrid and The New York Times Syndicate. He has received The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars fellowship and the Guggenheim fellowship. |