Sivuvalo goes to Guadalajara International Book Fair [Mexico]

Iloisina ilmoitamme Sivuvalon tiimin osallistumisesta Guadalajaran kansainvälisille kirjamessuille, Meksikossa.

shuttered-glowing-void – A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Rodolfo Häsler

In this talk, Cuban poet Rodolfo Häsler will read his poems alongside Emma Toukonen’s Finnish translations. The Helsinki-based poet José Luis Rico will discuss the constitutive elements of Häsler’s work.

Tokonoma del vacío – lengua y desarraigo en la obra Rodolfo Häsler

Nacido en La Habana, Häsler es un cubano-en-el-exilio, testigo de esa diáspora intelectual y de su correlato estético. En esta charla, Häsler y el poeta mexicano avecindado en Finlandia José Luis Rico discutirán los elementos constitutivos de esta obra.

Songs, Caves, Fireworks: Contemporary Spanish-Language Poetry from Central and South America

In English conversation, the poets Ramona de Jesús (Colombia, 1990) and Carlos F. Grigsby (Nicaragua, 1988) will discuss their own stances and affinities within this intricate landscape and read their own poems.

Never Been to the Sea: Sergio Sánchez’s Fiction and Latin American Disenchantment

Helsinki-based fiction writer Sergio Augusto Sánchez (born in Colombia, 1984) represents one of the strongest and (paradoxically) less exported currents of Latin American literature: what scholars have come to call the poetics of disenchantment.

Plumes and Wells and Burning Tongues: Mexican Poetry and Geological Writing

Poet, novelist, and scholar Cristina Rivera Garza and poet Amaranta Caballero Prado will discuss these issues and read excerpts of their work.

Celebrated Mexican American Writer Cristina Rivera Garza Visits Helsinki

The Life of Cotton: Ancestors, Modernity, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderland
Speaker: Cristina Rivera Garza
Wednesday, February 21st, 14:15-15:45
Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Room 6

The Fear of Antipodes: A Conversation with Chilean Writer Oscar Barrientos Bradasic

Tuesday, January 16, 17:00-18:30.
Rosebud Sivullinen, Helsinki
Interview by José Luis Rico.

Nexos, flujos, filamentos: Comunicación poética entre América Latina y Europa del Norte – networking session

Congreso Internacional de Lenguas Iberorrománicas | University of Helsinki, Metsätalo. Unioninkatu 40, third floor, room 6
Friday 12th January, 13:30-14:30

Poetry between North and South | Poesía entre el Sur y el Norte

Congreso Internacional de Lenguas Iberorrománicas | University of Helsinki, Metsätalo. Unioninkatu 40, third floor, room 6
Thursday 11th January, 16:30-17:30