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A Conversation with Carlos Fuentes and Edith Grossman

Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

January 20, 2011

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The former Mexican Ambassador to France, Carlos Fuentes is the author of more than 20 books, including Happy Families, The Eagle’s Throne, The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Prize in Literature (Mexico’s highest literary award), France’s Legion of Honor medal and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. His new novel, Destiny and Desire is the posthumously told taleof two orphan boys whose intense intellectual friendship collides with the fantastical political and economic landscape of Mexico’s history and future. Edith Grossman is the distinguished translator of works by major Spanish-language authors, including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero and Alvaro Mutis, as well as Carlos Fuentes. She has won numerous awards for her work, notably the 2006 PEN Ralph Manheim Medal, and her translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote was published to great acclaim in 2003. Her new book is Why Translation Matters.