A Talk with Leading Writer Alberto Ruy Sánchez

Mon 28 May 2012
Trung Nguyen Cafe

From the organizer:

Vietnamese and foreign readers in Hanoi will have opportunity to meet Dr. Ruy Sánchez, whose work has been acclaimed by famous international writers, such as: Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Severo Sarduy, Alberto Manguel and Claude Michel Cluny.

Mexican writer and editor Alberto Ruy Sánchez will visit Vietnam from May 24^th to Jun 6^th to present his three books from the collection “El Quinteto de Mogador” that have been translated into Vietnamese:

1. The names of the air (Tên của khí trơi)
2. The skin of the earth (Làn da của đât)
3. In the lips of the water (Đôi môi của nước)

Born in 1951, Ruy-Sánchez received his Ph. D. from the University of Jussieu, Paris, under the directorship of Roland Barthes and has widely published in scholarly journals.

Nobel Prize Octavio Paz, once said he is: “the strangest of Mexican writers, a true cosmopolite poet telling stories from a territory wider than just a country because he is the poet from the skin. That is why his language is the touch, the sense that implies all the others.”

His novel Mogador, published by City Lights in San Francisco in 1993, was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the most prestigious literary recognition in Mexico. Since 1988 he has been the Chief Editor and founding publisher of Latin America’s leading Arts Magazine: Artes de Mexico.

In February 2000 he was decorated by the French Government as Officer de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has been several times Thinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Chairman of the Creative Non-Fiction Summer Program in the Banff Centre for the Arts, in Canada.

For more information about the author and his work, visit his website at www.albertoruysanchez.com

Readers who want to attend the presentation of the books, please contact the Embassy of Mexico in Vietnam at (04) 38 47 09 48 for further information.