LITERATURE A conversation with acclaimed NEW YORK translator Edith Grossman Mon, November 07, 2016 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Venue The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts, The City College of New York 160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031 View map Phone: 212-650-6731

Admission Free

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Credits Translator and critic Edith Grossman and Consul of Spain for With the support of Review: Cultural Affairs Juan José Herrera de la Muela will discuss Literature and Arts of the Americas, The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the translation and literature. Humanities and the Arts, the Department of Classical and Modern Edith Grossman is a translator, critic, and occasional teacher of literature Languages & Literatures, and The in Spanish. She has been the recipient of various awards and honors Consulate General of Spain in New including Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Guggenheim Fellowships, an York. Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a medal for the Order of Civil Merit from the Spanish government, among others.

Grossman has brought over into English poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by major Latin American writers, including Gabriel García Márquez and . Her works in Spain include by , novels by Julián Ríos, Carmen Laforet and Antonio Muñoz Molina, and poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: The Solitudes of Luis de Góngora and the Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes.

Juan José Herrera’s career has always been focused on culture and the arts. He is a diplomat, a published author, an art curator, a book editor, and a translator from French, English and Italian, specializing in Russian culture. He has managed museums, orchestras, book collections, and performing arts centers in his native Spain, and he currently serves as Consul of Spain for Cultural Affairs in .

Embassy of Spain – Cultural Office | 2801 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009 | Tel: (202) 728-2334 View this event online: https://www.spainculture.us/city/new-york/a-conversation-with-the-acclaimed-translator-edith-grossman/ Created on 09/30/2021 | Page 1 of 1