Poetry and Translation Workshop with Pura López Colomé (in Spanish): "Traducibilidad: poesía que se deja trasladar, transfigurar"
Poetry and Translation Workshop with Pura López Colomé (in Spanish): "Traducibilidad: poesía que se deja trasladar, transfigurar"
Department of Spanish and Portuguese's annual José Emilio Pacheco Lecture Series, featuring the Mexican poet Pura López Colomé:
Pura López Colomé (México City, 1952) is a poet, essayist, and translator. She has published thirteen poetry collections, including books with the prestigious presses Conaculta and Fondo de Cultura Económica. Many of her essay collections have been published by Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). Her poetry collections have appeared in English, French, German, Dutch, and Slovenian translation. Among the poets whose work she has translated are the Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Louise Glück. She has won some of the most important literary and translation awards in Mexico and the world, including the Premio Nacional Alfonso Reyes, the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, the Premio Nacional Inés Arredondo, the Royal Dutch Medal of Orange-Nassau, the Premio Nacional de Traducción Literaria, and the Banff International Translation Center’s Linda Gaboriau prize, supported by the Canadian National Arts Centre. She is a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (National System of Art Creators). She lives in Cuernavaca.
Monday, October 16, 2:00-4:00, HJP 2124
Poetry and Translation Workshop with Pura López Colomé (in Spanish): "Traducibilidad: poesía que se deja trasladar, transfigurar"
Pura López Colomé will meet with students, faculty, and staff to discuss the process of poetry translation, specifically in reference to three poems, by Max Ritvo, Paul Muldoon, and Sharon Olds, respectively. This event will be conducted primarily in Spanish.
Thursday, October 19, 6:45, The Mexican Cultural Institute
Public Lecture with Pura López Colomé (in Spanish): "Nuevas voces en la poesía mexicana contemporánea" Pura López Colomé will deliver a lecture in Spanish about contemporary Mexican poetry at the beautiful home of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC. There will be a question and answer period following her lecture.
Friday, October 20, 3:00, St. Mary's Hall, Multipurpose Room
Public Lecture with Pura López Colomé (in English): "José Emilio Pacheco: His Legacy as Essayist, Poet and Translator in My Own Poetry" Pura López Colomé will deliver a lecture in English about the influence on her own work of the writing of José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014), the Mexican writer who, from the 1980s to the 2000s, was a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UMD. There will be a question and answer period following her lecture, and then a light reception.