Hugo Mujica was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied Fine Arts, Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology and Theology. His poetry has been published in Argentina, Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, United States, Chile, Slovenia, and Bulgaria. In 2005, Seix Barral published his Complete Poetry, 1983-2004. In 2011 he published the poetry collection Y siempre después el viento. Both in his poetry and his prose, he draws inspiration from his experiences, which include living in Greenwich Village in the 1960s as a visual artist, and seven years of silent monastic life as part of the Trappist Order.
Organized by Miguel Ángel Zapata, the Great Hispanic Writers Series is a program jointly sponsored by the Dean of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Hofstra Cultural Center.
