The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Hofstra University Honors College Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program Present a lecture on
“Crossing Borders”
Eduardo González Viaña April 7th, 2016 Roosevelt Hall 0112 2: 20-3: 45 pm
Peruvian-born Eduardo González Viaña depicts powerful images of immigrants in the United States as they face fierce challenges adapting to life on the other side of the border. He is an Emeritus professor at Western Oregon University, and a member of the Peruvian and North American Academies of Spanish Language. He has published more than 40 books. His novel El corrido de Dante (Arte Público 2007) has been published in seven different countries and languages. It was translated to English as Dante’s Ballad, and to Italian as La Ballata di Dante.
Dante’s Ballad was considered the best novel in Spanish language written in the United States in 2007, and the author received the Latino International Prize of Novel in the USA. Gioconda Belli and Isabel Allende shared the Second Prize. His novel Vallejo en los infiernos is the first biographical novel written about the life of Peruvian poet César Vallejo, one of the most influential poets of the twentieth-century in any language. It has been translated into English as César Vallejo’s Season in Hell by a group of professors led by Stephen M. Hart. "A magnificent testimony of the Latin American presence in the United States"-- Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize of Literature 2010. For more information, please contact Prof. Miguel-Angel Zapata (516- 463 4766) or email: Miguelangel.zapata@hofstra.edu