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Posts in category "literature"

Remembering Carlos Fuentes: 1928-2012

Remembering Carlos Fuentes: 1928-2012
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By Teresa Puente,
May 15, 2012 at 10:50 pm
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Oscar Hijuelos explores identity and language in his first memoir "Thoughts Without Cigarettes"

Oscar Hijuelos Writer Oscar Hijuelos read from his new memoir “Thoughts Without Cigarettes” at the Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago Saturday. The author won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” in 1990, and he was the first Latino author to win that prize for fiction. Hijuelos spoke... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
June 5, 2011 at 11:11 am
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Gil Scott-Heron's Revolution...¡Que viva la revolución!

La revolución will not be televisedYou will not see la revolución on Fox News, CNN or even UnivisiónLa revolución is not telenovelas, reality TV or talk radio La revolución is not Sarah-zonaLa revolución is not Jan Brewer’s SB1070La revolución will not be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court La revolución is not Cinco de MayoLa... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
May 28, 2011 at 1:50 am
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Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa is the fifth Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Who else should win?

Mario Vargas Llosa courtesy nobelprize.org Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy said he won “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Vargas Llosa fuses art and politics. He unsuccessfully ran for president of Peru in... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
October 7, 2010 at 8:47 am
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The Sins of Sor Juana tells the story of one of Mexico's greatest icons

From the Goodman Theatre “I think God wants women to learn,” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz tells a fellow nun in the convent. “Why?” the sister asks. “Because why else would we ask why?” Sor Juana replies. This is a scene from “The Sins of Sor Juana,” a play about the imagined life of... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
July 5, 2010 at 7:29 am
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Writers Poniatowska and Cisneros, groundbreaking women together in Chicago

Mexican writer, Elena Poniatowska, and Chicana author Sandra Cisneros are speaking together in Chicago this Wednesday night at DePaul University. This is a unique opportunity to see two amazing women writers. Their conversation titled, “Echoes of a Revolution” is to commemorate the centennial of the Mexican Revolution and the bi-centennial of Mexican Independence. Poniatowksa lives... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
May 12, 2010 at 8:52 am
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Earthquake stirs thoughts of famous Chileans

We’ve all heard about Chile and the massive earthquake that may have shifted the earth’s axis and briefly shortened the life of the planet by milliseconds. We know that the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said at first they didn’t need international aid but it’s become obvious that they do. And this week Secretary of State... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
March 4, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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Mexican journalist Elena Poniatowska speaks in Chicago

One of Mexico’s greatest journalists and writers, Elena Poniatowska, will be in Chicago Saturday afternoon for a lecture at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen. Poniatowska, 77, is the author of more than 50 books but she is best known for La Noche de Tlatelolco, (Massacre in Mexico) about the student protests that... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
August 21, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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