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The Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures,
The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts &
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
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are pleased to invite you to a
Conversation with acclaimed translator
Edith Grossman and Consul of Spain in New York
Juan José Herrera de la Muela
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EDITH GROSSMAN is a translator, critic, and occasional teacher of literature in Spanish. She has been the
recipient of awards and honors including Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Guggenheim
Fellowships, the PEN Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, an Award in Literature from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Queen Sofía Translation Prize, the
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, induction into the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and a medal for the Order of Civil Merit from the Spanish government.
Grossman has brought over into English poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by major Latin
American writers, including Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa,
Álvaro Mutis, Mayra Montero, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Peninsular works that she
has translated include Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, novels by Julián Ríos,
Carmen Laforet, Carlos Rojas, and Antonio Muñoz Molina, poetry of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, The Solitudes of Luis de Góngora, and the Exemplary Novels of
Miguel de Cervantes.
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JUAN JOSÉ HERRERA'S career has always been focused on culture and the arts: he is a
diplomat, a published author, an art curator, a book editor, and a translator from French,
English and Italian, specializing in Russian culture. He has managed museums, orchestras,
book collections, and performing arts centers in his native Spain, and he currently serves
as Consul of Spain in New York City.
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When? Monday, November 7th, 2016
Where? The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the
Humanities & the Arts, NAC 6/316
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Time? 6:00 PM
For general information and to RSVP: Please contact the Department of Classical and Modern Languages &
Literatures, 212-650-6731, or Daniel Shapiro [email protected]
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This event is made possible thanks to Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas,
The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts, & the
Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures: https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cmll
For further information about Review, please visit: http://www.tandfonline.com/review
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**This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served**