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De gira David Caleb Acevedo


Canisius Hosts Hispanic Writers

BUFFALO, NYThe Canisius College Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures will welcome writers David Caleb Acevedo and Charlie Vázquez to discuss Puerto Rican and Nuyorican literature on Monday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the Regis Room North of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center. The event, which is co-sponsored by Sigma Delta Pi, is free and open to the public.

Acevedo just released his memoir, Diario de una puta humilde (Erizo Editorial). He is currently at work on a novel, el Oneronauta, and at work on the anthology Los colmillos de la muerte: antología puertorriqueña de cuento gótico, espíritus nocturnos, vampiros urbanos y otros vicios de sangre, which he will coedit with Puerto Rican writer Ana María Fuster Lavín.
Acevedo also works as a literary translator. He translated the novels of Karen Sevilla,  Yolanda Arroyo-Pizarro,  Ángel Antonio Ruiz Laboy, Emilio del Carril,  Moisés Agosto-Rosario,  Ana María Fuster Lavín and Charlie Vázquez.

Vázquez is a Bronx-born writer of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. His first novel, Buzz and Israel, will be republished in 2013, and his second, Contraband, was published in 2010 by Rebel Satori Press.  Vázquez also co-wrote From Macho to Mariposa (Lethe, 2011) with Charles Rice-González.   

Vásquez has presented at El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University, Fordham University, New York University, the New School, Pace University, Hunter College, the CUNY Graduate Center, and others.

 For more information, contact Richard Reitsma, PhD, at (716) 888-2408 or via email at reitsmar@canisius.edu.

Canisius is one of 28 Jesuit universities in the nation and the premier private university in Western New York.

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Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (Guaynabo, 1970). Es novelista, cuentista y ensayista puertorriqueña. Fue elegida una de las escritoras latinoamericanas más importantes menores de 39 años del Bogotá39 convocado por la UNESCO, el Hay Festival y la Secretaría de Cultura de Bogotá por motivo de celebrar a Bogotá como Capital Mundial del libro 2007. Acaba de recibir Residency Grant Award 2011 del National Hispanic Cultural Center en Nuevo México. Es autora de los libros de cuentos, ‘Avalancha’ (2011), ‘Historias para morderte los labios’ (Finalista PEN Club 2010), y ‘Ojos de Luna’ (Segundo Premio Nacional 2008, Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña; Libro del Año 2007 Periódico El Nuevo Día), además de los libros de poesía ‘Medialengua’ (2010) y Perseidas (2011). Ha publicado las novelas ‘Los documentados’ (Finalista Premio PEN Club 2006) y Caparazones (2010, publicada en Puerto Rico y España).

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