José Luis Rico, currently Sivuvalo director, took part in the third conference of the Nordic collaborative network REDES hold at the University of Iceland on 18-20 June 2026.
Tag: literatura latinoamericana
Unicorn origami:Daniel Rojas Pachas’s poetry & Latin American baroque
Date: Friday, 28.2.2025, 18:00-20:00
Location: Tekstin talo, Parvisali
Language: English (poetry in Spanish + Finnish translation)
New Havens & Humanoids (2023-2024) – Recap and Mixer
Sat, Nov 9th, 2024, 17:00 Kone Foundation’s Kamari (Tehtaankatu 21 B 45, 5. kerros, Helsinki) In January 2023, Sivuvalo begun … More
Carlos F. Grigsby | Poemas
Selección de poemas traducidos al finés por Emma Toukonen
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.
Kirjan ja ruusun päivänä Sivuvalolla on paljon juhlittavaa
Kirjan ja ruusun päivänä Sivuvalolla on paljon juhlittavaa. Koneen Säätiön rahoittaman New Havens & Humanoids -hankkeen jäsenet ja yhteistyökumppanit ovat parhaillaan töissä monissa käännöskäsikirjoituksissa, jotka ilmestyvät vuosien 2024 ja 2025 varrella joko Suomessa tai espanjankielisessä maailmassa.
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.
El invencible verano de Liliana, Cristina Rivera Garza (fragmentos)
Traducción al finés: Emma Toukonen
Lilianan voittamaton kesä, Cristina Rivera Garza (katkelmia)
Käännös: Emma Toukonen
Cristina Rivera Garza
Rivera Garza is a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow for Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing. She currently works as the Director of the Creative Writing Program in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston (Texas) and is a member of El Colegio Nacional (Mexico’s Academy of Sciences).
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.
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