Casa América‘s Simón Bolívar Hall will host tomorrow Tuesday at 7.30pm the dialogue Remembering Gabriel García Márquez, 10 years later, organised together with the Colombian Embassy.
Ten years after the death of Gabriel García Márquez, on Holy Thursday 2014, like Úrsula Iguarán, the work of the great Colombian writer remains relevant among readers and critics, not only because of the recent appearance of his posthumous story, En agosto nos vemos, but also and above all because of the extraordinary humanity of his stories and characters that challenge the reader without pause or respite.
To celebrate this double circumstance, the participants in this dialogue will discuss García Márquez’s legacy and his influence on their own work as novelists and short-story writers, as well as on the fictional literature being written and published today throughout Latin America and the rest of the world.
Welcoming the audience will be León de la Torre Krais, Director General of Casa de América, and Eduardo Ávila Navarrete, Ambassador of Colombia, and María Ospina, writer and professor of Latin American culture and creative writing at Wesleyan University, and Jorge Volpi, writer and director of the Centro de Estudios Mexicanos UNAM-España. Moderator: Alexandra Saavedra, researcher and lecturer at the Complutense University. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
