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"Cry to Rome", a poem by Federico García Lorca. Published in native languages
Spain, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
"Cry to Rome", a poem by Federico García Lorca. Published in native languages
On the occasion of Spain's presence as the Guest of Honor at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the Instituto Cervantes and the National Autonomous University of Mexico are presenting the special multilingual edition of the poem "Grito hacia Roma" by Federico García Lorca, which is part of his body of poems "Poeta en Nueva York. It expresses the poet's shock after experiencing the enormous social and racial inequalities in the United States during the 1929 crisis.
This volume is co-published by the Instituto Cervantes and the UNAM, with the collaboration of the Federico García Lorca Foundation; the Ministry of Culture's General Directorate of Books, Comics and Reading; the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation; and the Organization of Ibero-American States. It brings together a selection of native languages from communities in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Chile, among others, as an example of interculturalism, plurality and respect for the native languages that coexist with the Spanish language. The poem has an introductory text by the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez; texts by Luis García Montero, director of the Instituto Cervantes, and Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, Dean of the UNAM; and an epilogue by the writer Rosa Beltrán, all included in this edition published and distributed in Mexico and which will be distributed in other countries.
The poem has been translated into the following languages: Quechua, Guarani, Nahuatl, Aymara, Mayan, Wayuu, Tzotzil, Mixtec, Zapotec, Kaqchikel, Otomi, Mapuche, Totonac, Mazatecan, Mazahua, Purépecha, Mixe, Nasa Yuwe, Sikuani, Warao, Zoque, Pemon, Kogui, Nam trik, Iku, Desano and Tuyuca.
During the course of the event, poems will be read in Quechua, Guarani, Nahuatl, Mayan, Wayuu, Nasa Yuwe, Zapotec and Mapuche, among other languages, by their translators.
The event will feature Luis García Montero, director of the Instituto Cervantes; Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, Dean of the UNAM; and the translators of the poem in the different languages of the publication.
Participants: Luis García Montero, Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas
Luis García Montero
Invitado de Honor(Granada, 1958) has been the director of the Instituto Cervantes since 2018. He is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.
The awards he has received include: Premio Adonáis (1982), Premio Nacional de Literatura (1994), Premio Nacional de la Crítica (2003), Premio del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid (2009), Premio Poetas del Mundo Latino (2010, México), Premio Paralelo 0 (2018, Ecuador), Golden Antelope International Poetry Prize (2021, China) and Premio Montale Fuori di Casa (2023, Italy).
His poetry books include Y ahora ya eres dueño del Puente de Brooklyn (1980), El jardín extranjero (1983), Habitaciones separadas (1980), Completamente viernes (1998), La intimidad de la serpiente (2003), Vista cansada (2008), A puerta cerrada (2017), No puedes ser así. Breve historia del mundo (2021), Un año y tres meses (2022) and Almudena (2024).
In non-fiction, he has published ¿Por qué no es útil la literatura? (1993, in collaboration with Antonio Muñoz Molina), Un lector llamado Federico García Lorca (2016), Las palabras rotas (2019) and La realidad de una esperanza. Galdós, la memoria y la poesía (2020), and critical editions of García Lorca (1992 y 2017), Alberti (1988), Carlos Barral (1997) and Luis Rosales (2005).
He is the author of the novels Impares, fila 13 (written with Felipe Benítez Reyes); Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera (2009), a novelized biography of Ángel González; No me cuentes tu vida (2012) and Someone speaks your name (2014).
He has studied the work of authors such as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Luis Rosales, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Francisco Ayala and José Emilio Pacheco. He also has honorary degrees from the universities of San Agustín and Ricardo Palma (Peru), Pontificia Católica Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) and Córdoba (Argentina), and is an honorary professor at the University of Mar del Plata (Argentina).
He recently received the Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria (2024) in the Spanish Language, awarded by the Secretariat of Culture and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Other activities involving the participant:
Writing goodbye
Journeys. Mexico: memory of hospitality
Spanish in the world
Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas
(Mexico City) is a distinguished economist and historian. He received a degree in Economics and Master's and PhD degrees in History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), graduating with honors.
His teaching career in the Faculty of Economics at UNAM began in 1994. Since then, his devotion to teaching and research has been constant and significant, both as a full-time professor and as a level-II member of the National System of Researchers. He is a full member of the Mexican Academy of Political Economy, a member of the Mexican Association of Economic History, and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
He has written four books, more than fifty chapters and numerous papers in indexed journals. Also of note is his participation as co-author and coordinator in important publications. He has also been a consultant for various national and international bodies.
He has directed a total of 48 undergraduate theses, three specialization theses, three master's theses and one PhD dissertation in areas such as Economy, History, Political Science and Public Administration. He has participated in seven PhD tutorials and is currently directing three doctoral theses in Economics and one in Law.
As an administrator, he was the Director of the Faculty of Economics at UNAM (2010-2014, 2014-2015) and General Secretary of the University (2015-2023). His influence on academic and government committees has had a positive impact on the country's educational and economic policies.
On November 9, 2023, the Board of Governors of UNAM appointed him rector of this university for the period 2023-2027, a post to which he was sworn in on November 17 in the palace of the old medical school.
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