Casa América and the Embassy of Uruguay are organising this afternoon at 6.30 pm in the Miguel de Cervantes hall of the diplomatic cultural centre the round table Circe Maia, winner of the International Federico García Lorca 2023 prize. Contributions to the knowledge of her work and her poetic thought.
Circe Maia (Montevideo, 1932) is the recent winner of the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize, which will be awarded on 26 May in Granada. In addition to being a teacher, translator and essayist, she is one of Uruguay’s most important and award-winning poets. However, her work has not been so widely disseminated in Spain, except for the two poetry anthologies Múltiples paseos a un lugar desconocido and Transparencias. Apart from his emblematic Viaje a Salto, most of his output is still a well-kept secret for Spanish readers.
Four scholars of her work will propose an approach to the production of this Uruguayan writer in which the frontiers between poetry and philosophy are blurred. The meeting will be an opportunity to present the latest edition of La casa de polvo sumeria. Sobre lecturas y traducciones (2024), a key piece in Maia’s production, in which she meditates on her work as a translator and shows herself to be a writer attentive to the creative act, reflecting on the central themes of her poetics: myths – “the most ancient face of poetry” -, intertextual relations, poetry as a mode of thought, and the theoretical and practical aspects of translation.
After welcoming remarks by Luis Prados, director of programming at Casa de América, María del Carmen González, professor at the University of the Republic of Uruguay and the University of Buenos Aires; Elena Romiti, National Academy of Letters of Uruguay Permanent Commission of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE-RAE) National Library of Uruguay; Mag. Jaqueline Oliver, University of Salamanca University of Coimbra, and Néstor Sanguinetti, National Library of Uruguay Catholic University of Uruguay will take part in the event. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
