The Department of Spanish and the Latin American Studies Center (LASC) in collaboration with the Cultural Institute of Mexico cordially invite you to attend a reading by Mexican Poet

Friday, October 10, 2008

1:00 to 2:15 p.m.

Holzapfel Hall

Room 0128-B (LASC)

PURA LOPEZ COLOME was born in Mexico City and now lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She spent her early years in Mexico City and Mérida, Yucatán, and completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She was awarded the Alfonso Reyes National Prize for Young Writers (1977) and the Yearly Fellowship granted by the Mexican Center of Writers for critical writing (1982).

She has published nine volumes of poetry including El sueño del cazador (The Hunter’s Dream, 1985) and No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura Lopez Colome, translated by Forrest Gander (2002).

Pura Lopez Colome is well-known for her Spanish translations of works by poets such as Samuel Beckett, Bertold Brecht, Seamus Heaney, Rainer Maria Rilke, among others. Her latest poetry collection, Santo y seña

(Password) was published in 2007. With this work, she recently shared the prestigious Premio Xavier Villaurrutia prize with fellow poet Elsa Cross, for Latin American writers publishing in Mexico. As well, her

1994 volume Aurora will also be issued in the US and UK in 2007.