He writer Mexican Juan Villoro will dictate the conference masterful “Hourglass: the times of the Caribbean“, within the Chair of Literature Caribbeanña René del Risco Bermúdez, sponsored by the René del Risco Bermúdez Foundation and the Study Center Caribbeanfrom the Pontifical Catholic Mother and Teacher University.
At the local level, the sociologist and diplomat Rubén Silié will contribute his perspective with the speech “The pluralities identity in it Caribbean“.
The activity, aimed at people interested in topics cultural and literarywill be held on Wednesday, November 6 at 6:30 in the afternoon, in auditorium I, Building A-2 of the Santo Domingo campus of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.
The Chair of Literature Caribbeanña René del Risco Bermúdez was established in 2018, with a conference magisterial that dictated the writer Cuban Leonardo Padura, Prize Princess of Asturias of Literature 2015, and an outstanding exhibition by the renowned Dominican intellectual José Rafael Lantigua on the contributions literary by René del Risco Bermúdez.
In the following years, the Chair has had like exhibitors to the writer Nicaraguan Sergio Ramírez, Prize Cervantes 2017, the Dominican writer Soledad Álvarez and the writer Dominican José Marmol.
About Juan Villoro
Writer and journalist, Juan Villoro He was born in Mexico City in 1956. He has been a professor at UNAM and a visiting professor at the universities of Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, as well as at the New Journalism Foundation, created by Gabriel García Márquez. He is a columnist for Reforma (Mexico) and was director of The Weekly Day.
- Since 2014 he has been a member of the National College.
In 2012 he obtained the Prize Ibero-American José Donoso and in 2018 the Prize Manuel Rojas for his entire work, both awarded in Chile. Among the recognitions he has received in Mexico is the Prize Mazatlán for his book essays literary Personal effects and Xavier Villaurrutia for his book of short stories The House Loses.
In Spain he received the Prize Herralde for his novel The witness; in Argentina the Prize ACE for his play Filosofía de vida and in Cuba the Prize José María Arguedas for his novel Reef. His journalism He has been recognized with the King of Spain, City of Barcelona, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Diario Madrid awards.
- In 2022 he received in Bogotá the Prize Gabo for his journalistic career.
Their works most recent are The figure of the world. The secret order of things, book of memoirs about his father, the philosopher Luis Villoro, and I am not a robot, a reflection about reading in times of digital society.
