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Mexican Writer Elena Poniatowska to Deliver Turner Lecture, October 6
Elena Poniatowska, one of Mexico's leading writers and recipient of the 2004 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, will give this year's Turner Lecture on Wednesday, October 6 at noon in Sulzberger Parlor. Entitled "La literatura que sube de la calle," or "Literature that rises from the streets," the lecture will be given in Spanish, and is free and open to the public.
Poniatowska is the author of more than 30 works, including award-winning chronicles, novels, short stories, and essays, but is best known for her testimonial narratives: Massacre in Mexico , a chronicle of the Mexican government's brutal repression of rallying students in 1968 ; Nothing, No One: Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake , and Here's to You, Jesusa . Poniatowska is one of the founders of the Cineteca Nacional, the newspaper La Jornada , and Siglo XXI, one of Mexico's most prestigious publishing houses. She was also a Gildersleeve Lecturer at Barnard in the late 1990s.
Poniatowska will be introduced by Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures Michael Schuessler. In November 2003, Schuessler published a book on Poniatowska, Elenísima: ingenio y figura de Elena Poniatowska , which quickly climbed to No. 3 on Mexico's nonfiction bestseller list. To read more about the book: http://www.barnard.edu/newnews/news020404.html
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