Benengeli 2022 I I Instituto Cervantes Sydney

 

June 6, 2022

Benengeli in the 5 continents. Realism: Javier Moreno, Andrew Pippos and Felix Calvino

 

The gradual return to the face-to-face activity is one of the great news of this year 2022. In five of the Instituto Cervantes centers around the world, the reflections of Spanish-language authors will be heard and they will dialogue with writers from Australia, India, France , Senegal and the United States, about the main elements of fiction in the whole world.    

Thus, the authors Javier Moreno, Andrew Pippos and Félix Calviño will be talking about Realism with the Hispanist Luke Stegemann. 

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Instituto Cervantes I Benengeli 2022

 May 25, 2022

BENENGELI 2022 THE LARGEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE FEST IN THE WORLD

Fri Jun 10 2022 at 06:00 pm Instituto Cervantes, 31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654, EE. UU., Chicago, United States

INSTITUTO CERVANTES CHICAGO PRESENTS THE CLOSING ROUND TABLE OF THIS WORLDWIDE EVENT. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE WRITERS MIGUEL GOMES AND FREDERICK DE ARMAS MODERATED BY ROCÍO FERREIRA

Instituto Cervantes in Chicago is proud to announce that it will be part of the worldwide literary festival Benengeli 2022 which will take place from 6th to the 10th of June in the five continents with more than 40 Spanish English and French writers offering their reflections on the theme of realism.

 The Instituto Cervantes in Spain as part of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on a worldwide literary festival that promotes Spanish literature Benengeli 2022 the International Week of Spanish Literature. Benengeli 2022 will be jointly hosted at the centres of Instituto Cervantes in Chicago (North America) Toulouse (Europe) Casablanca (Africa) New Delhi (Asia) and Sydney (Australia). The central theme of Benengeli 2022 is realism.

 Benengeli 2022 closing event at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago on June 10th at 6 pm with the Miguel Gomes conversing with Frederick de Armas about narrative fictions in the 21st century and the weight that realistic aesthetics. Rocío Ferreira will act as moderator of this remarkable event.

 Miguel Gomes is a storyteller born in Caracas in 1964. He studied at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and at the Central University of Venezuela. He later obtained a doctorate at Stony Brook University in New York. Since 1989 he has lived in the United States where he works as a graduate professor at the University of Connecticut. Among his titles are the novels Llévame esta noche Retrato de un caballero and Ante el jurado; books of short stories La cueva de Altamira Un fantasma portugués and Julieta en su castillo; and volumes of criticism and essays El pozo de las palabras Los géneros literarios en Hispanoamérica and La realidad y el valor estético: configuraciones del poder en el ensayo hispanoamericano.

https://languages.uconn.edu/person/miguel-gomes/

Frederick de Armas received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina. He has published novels El abra de Yamurí and Sinfonía Salvaje as well as several critical essays including “El retorno de Astrea: Astrología mito e imperio en Calderón” “La astrología en el teatro clásico europeo” and “Cervantes' Architectures: The Danger Outside.” He has served as president of the Cervantes Society of America and the International Association Siglo de Oro (AISO). He currently holds the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at the University of Chicago.

https://rll.uchicago.edu/frederick-de-armas

Rocío Ferreira

https://las.depaul.edu/academics/modern-languages/faculty/spanish/Pages/rocio-ferreira.aspx

Rocío Ferreira is Associate Professor of Latin American literature culture and cinema and Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She earned a doctorate in Latin American literature and in Women’s Gender and Sexualities Studies from the University of California Berkeley. She specializes in nineteenth-century and contemporary literary and visual culture written by women. Her areas of research are foundational narratives and journalism of the 19th century war literature (XIX-XXI) and contemporary issues related to the configurations of memory in literature culture and cinema. She has participated in numerous international congresses has published critical articles in specialized books and scholarly journals and critical editions in addition to her monograph De las Veladas literarias a la Cocina ecléctica: mujeres cultura y nación en el Perú decimonónico. She is currently writing a new book on women writing on the Peruvian internal armed conflict entitled Las mujeres disparan: Imágenes y poéticas de la violencia política (1980-2000) en la cultura literaria y visual peruana contemporánea.

 Voices of great aesthetic power such as those of Piedad Bonnet (Colombia) Katya Adaui (Peru) Magela Baudoin (Bolivia) Carlos Cortés Zúñiga (Costa Rica); Selva Almada (Argentina) Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Venezuela) Evelio Rosero (Colombia) Fernanda Trías (Uruguay) Vicente Luis Mora (Spain) Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico) Carlos Franz (Chile) Ronaldo Menéndez (Cuba) Pedro Crenes (Panama) Antonio José Ponte (Cuba) Santiago Gil (Spain) and Jacinta Escudos (El Salvador) will present the elements that constitute the axis of their work and the relationship of love distance or rejection that each one of them experiences in front of the realistic discourse that seems to define a good part of the universal narrative of this moment of the 21st century.

Outstanding narrators such as Valeria Correa Fiz (Argentina) David Toscana (Mexico) and Spaniards Juana Salabert Daniel Gascón Bárbara Mingo Costales and José Ovejero will talk about their most recent books; titles that constitute a living landscape on the fictional recreation that marks current times.

Impossible to forget the presence of the Lima writer Fernando Iwasaki who will offer small spoken portraits on the play with reality that authors belonging to various traditions and territories and who have adopted or maintained Spanish as their artistic language make. We will thus get to know the work of Siu Kam Wen Fabio Morabito Ioana Gruia Kalman Barsy and Mónika Zgustova.

As the dialogue between diverse literary traditions is one of the main attempts of Benengeli 2022 the activities will also include the presence of writers such as Lydie Salvayre (France); Ken Bugul (Senegal) Andrew Pippos (Australia) Félix Calviño (Spain/Australia) and Geetanjali Shree (India).

Benengeli 2022 an initiative of the Cervantes Institute whose curator is writer Nicolas Melini has the support of institutions and cultural entities from Buenos Aires Lima La Paz Bogota Caracas San Jose de Costa Rica San Juan de Puerto Rico Panama City Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Santa Cruz de La Palma Seville and Madrid.

Between June 6 and 10 in addition to the on-site activities in each of the five cities of Benengeli 2022 the virtual programming of this festival will be available through the Instituto Cervantes in in Sydney New Delhi Toulouse Dakar and Chicago You Tube channels the Podcast channel of the Cervantes Institute and through the following link: https://cvc.cervantes.es/benengeli22/. As mentioned at the beginning of this information the content will be available not only in Spanish but also in dubbed or subtitled versions in English.  

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Instituto Cervantes I Benengeli 2022 I elDiario.es/

 May 25, 2022

Benengeli 2022, la Semana Internacional de la Literatura en Español del Instituto Cervantes, recorrerá este año todo el planeta y tendrá lugar en las sedes del Instituto Cervantes en Sídney, Nueva Delhi, Toulouse, Dakar y Chicago.

Con el «realismo» como tema básico, el nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez, el peruano Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Eduardo Halfon de Guatemala, Luisa Valenzuela de Argentina, el venezolano miguel gomes y los españoles Rosa Montero, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Soledad Puértolas, José Manuel Fajardo, Marta Barrio y Javier Moreno intervendrán en los distintos apartados de esta semana, que también incluye encuentros con narradores de Australia, India, Francia, Senegal y EE.UU. Estados Unidos

Mesas redondas presenciales, entrevistas, micropresentaciones en video, diálogos radiales son los formatos que componen este evento, que traerá al mundo una destacada y variada selección de la mejor literatura en nuestro idioma.

Voces de gran poder estético como las de Piedad Bonnet (Colombia), Katya Adaui (Perú), Magela Baudoin (Bolivia), Carlos Cortés Zúñiga (Costa Rica); Selva Almada (Argentina), Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Venezuela), Evelio Rosero (Colombia), Fernanda Trias (Uruguay), Vicente Luis Mora (España), Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico), Carlos Franz (Chile), Ronaldo Menéndez (Cuba), Pedro Crenes (Panamá), Antonio José Ponte (Cuba), Santiago Gil (España) y Jacinta Escudos (El Salvador) expondrán los elementos que forman el eje de su obra y la relación de amor, distancia o rechazo que cada uno de ellos crea frente a los más discurso realista, que parece definir gran parte de la narrativa universal de este momento del siglo XXI.

También disertantes destacados como Valeria Correa Fiz (Argentina), David Toscana (México) y los españoles Juana Salabert, Daniel Gascón, Bárbara Mingo Costales y José Ovejero hablarán sobre sus últimos libros; Títulos que acaban de aparecer en las librerías en nuestro idioma, y que configuran un paisaje vivo sobre la recreación ficcional que marca el tiempo actual.

Inolvidable es la presencia del escritor limeño Fernando Iwasaki, quien ofrecerá pequeños retratos hablados sobre el juego con la realidad, realizados por autores pertenecientes a diferentes tradiciones y territorios, que han adoptado o mantenido el español como lenguaje artístico. Así conocemos las obras de Siu Kam Wen, Fabio Morabito, Ioana Gruia, Kalman Barsy y Mónika Zgustova.

Como el diálogo entre diferentes tradiciones literarias es uno de los principales intentos de Benengeli 2022, las actividades también serán impulsadas por escritores como Lydie Salvayre (Francia); Geetanjali Shree (India); Ken Bugul (Senegal), Frederick de Armas (Estados Unidos), Andrew Pippos (Australia) y Félix Calviño (España/Australia).

Benengeli 2022, una iniciativa del Instituto Cervantes, cuyo curador es el escritor palmesano Nicolás Melini, cuenta en esta ocasión con el apoyo de instituciones y organismos culturales de Buenos Aires, Lima, La Paz, Bogotá, Caracas, San José de Costa Rica , San Juan Puerto Rico, Ciudad de Panamá, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sevilla y Madrid.

Entre ellos podemos señalar a la Universidad de Loyola; la Real Academia de la Lengua; Asale (España); el Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Colombia); Radio Deseo (Bolivia), Radio Universidad (Costa Rica), Unión Radio (Venezuela), Radio Universidad (Puerto Rico), KW Continente (Panamá), Revista Libros y Letras (Colombia); RNE en Madrid y Canarias (España) y Cadena Ser en Canarias (España).

Entre el 6 y el 10 de junio se podrá acceder a la programación virtual de Benengeli 2022 a través de los canales de YouTube del Cervantes de Sydney, Nueva Delhi, Toulouse, Dakar y Chicago y el canal de podcast del Instituto Cervantes; Contenido que se puede disfrutar no solo en español sino también en versiones dobladas o subtituladas en inglés y francés.

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Young Love & Other Stories I Anne Di Lauro

 May 27, 2022

In Félix Calvino’s Young Love we meet Manuel as an old man, and then have the pleasure of recognising him again in the story that follows, as a boy in love. In other stories we meet other young people, each with their poignant love story to tell. We are transported to another time and place, to a Galician village, perhaps about 50 years ago. We accompany the characters in their daily tasks and routines and dance with them at weddings and festivals. The sense of place is vividly conveyed. We are there in the school room, in the family kitchen, at gatherings where the young learn about life and love from village hearsay, while trying to understand their dawning feelings of love. The stories are wrapped in a poignant sense of potential tragedy that is never spelled out: an atmosphere that is a hallmark of all of Félix Calvino’s stories. This, as well as the simplicity and quiet wit with which the stories are told, makes his writing stand out as unusual and refreshing.

 Anne Di Lauro

 

Young Love & Other Stories I Janice Jones

 May 21, 2022

Janice Jones

Felix’s writing is dreamy, sensuous and evocative of love on an intimate scale, and slower time. I have loved reading A Hatful of Cherries, and Young Love…both tender and evocative collections of human stories unwinding in slow time. Gorgeous. Just what I needed to remind me of real love.

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Young Love & Other Stories I goodreadingmagazine.com.au I Jill Lindquist

 May 3, 2022

Young Love & Other Stories I The Fountain

 April 18, 2022

Review of Young Love, Felix Calvino's new offering.

Open any volume of Tang dynasty poets and you will often find their inner spirits and those of mountains and rivers illumining one another. Li Bai, for instance, lived for a while as a hermit lost among craggy peaks. Across hollow gorges, tones from his flute echoed. Deer flocked to him, licking pine nuts from the palms of his hands and rubbing their necks against the trunks of fragrant pines. The intimate relationship between the landscape and Bai's creativity is captured in his life’s most enduring image: of himself, one evening, attempting to embrace the full moon’s reflection in a lake.

Even in lonely rooms, lost within the din of busy cities, William Wordsworth would reminisce on the beauteous forms of the English countryside, of the whispers of springs flowing among steep and lofty cliffs, of orchards of pastoral farms green to their very doors. These images opened a door within the poet wherein, with his blood and very breath stilled, he became a living soul.

For Bi and Wordsworth, the inner luminosity of the landscape provides a spiritual commons, a source of creativity any artist can reflect to nurture inspiration.

For the past several thousand years, vast swaths of the Iberian Peninsula have served as commons. Within the forested folds of a Galician village, some of the characters in Felix Calvino's latest volume, Young Love, often alone, and often at night, discover within the hinterlands of their hearts, a secret, living fountain of creativity. The only authority needed to put this bounty to use is to do so.

As usual, Felix does so masterfully.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fountain

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2022