Cuban Literary Prize Winner, Detective Novelist Padura to Speak
One of Cubas most acclaimed writers, Leonardo Padura, will be giving talks and readings at 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis this Thursday and Friday, Oct. 24 and 25. Padura is known internationally for his series of Mario Conde detective novels, which have been translated into many languages and made into a Netflix series.
Padura has received the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award, and in 2015 the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world.
The Oct. 24 event at 4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art will start with a recent 30-minute film about Paduras life and writings, followed by a panel discussion. The Oct. 25 event, at 1:30 p.m. in Voorhees Hall room 126, will be more informal. Both are free and open to the public.
His works are well known all over the world, said Emilio Bejel, distinguished professor in the . The subject matter he writes about is not esoteric and is something everyone can understand.
Padura is an unusual figure in Cuba a writer who has not been harassed or censored by the ruling Communist party, but who hasnt shied away from investigative journalism or novels with issues and circumstances that carry critical commentaries about contemporary Cuba.
For Cubas intellectuals, and for its professional class, a new Padura book is as much a document as a novel, a way of understanding Cuban reality, wrote Jon Lee Anderson in a profile of Padura for The New Yorker. Although he speaks carefully in public, in private he will acknowledge, People think that what I say is a measure of what can or cant be said in Cuba.
Padura is serving as a writer-in-residence at 51勛圖窪蹋 Irvine during October. His 51勛圖窪蹋 visits are made possible by 51勛圖窪蹋 Irvine and the 51勛圖窪蹋-CUBA Multi-Campus Academic Initiative, a grassroots research effort by faculty members and graduate students whose work includes Cuban studies. Full story
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Artist Salle to give Thiebaud Lecture Nov. 1
David Salle, who became an art star in the 1980s and has also forged a career as an arts writer, will give the Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis. David Salle: How to See is presented by the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Letters and Science. The free talk is at 4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Salle has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. His paintings are in collections around the world including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art.
The lecture series, launched in 2015, is named for the late Betty Jean Thiebaud, filmmaker and educator, and her husband, Wayne Thiebaud, world-renowned artist and 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis professor emeritus. Past lectures have been by artists, or critics and writers. Salle brings those perspectives to the series. resented by the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Letters and Science.
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