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Junot DiazThe Americas Society maintains an active schedule of bilingual readings, lectures, book presentations, and conferences featuring Latin American, Caribbean and Canadian writers and scholars. This diverse programming provides a forum for writers and a resource information for literary professionals.

Literature events have included a subvention program for the translation of over 80 works of Latin American literature, including Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Many of the writers in literature programs have been published in the Americas Society's literary magazine, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. Review, the major U.S. forum for contemporary Latin American writing in English translation and for coverage on the Latin American arts, has a readership of 5,000. It has received numerous awards such as the Phoenix Award for Outstanding Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Image: Junot Díaz, photo by Lily Oei.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, September 30, 2010
Presentation of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Friday, October 1, 2010
Presentation of Entre la espada y la pluma: El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega y sus Comentarios Reales
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Thursday, October 14, 2010
A Centennial Celebration of Alberto Gerchunoff's The Jewish Gauchos 1910-2010
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Borges: A Classic in English
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Thursday, November 4, 2010
Book Presentation: The Light of Desire by Marjorie Agosín
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Literature: Inaugural event of Symposium on Bob Marley and His Legacy
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Literature Discussion: Part of Symposium on Bob Marley and His legacy
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Thursday, November 18, 2010
Review 81 Launch, Part of Symposium on Bob Marley and His Legacy
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Past Events

Friday, September 28, 2007
Panel: Argentine Literature, Culture, and Society

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Book Presentation: Colonialism and Modernity in the Literature of the Americas

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Book Presentation: Celebrating Biblioteca Ayacucho

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Book Presentation: Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Reading: An Evening with Jose Sarney and Gregory Rabassa

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Related Publications

May 26, 2010
Review 80 - Mexico: The 21st Century Issue

May 21, 2010
Presentan en NY compendio de literatura mexicana
Maurizio Guerrero
Notimex

November 13, 2009
Symposium marks 400th anniversary of Royal Commentary of the Incas
CUNY

October 30, 2009
La literatura de América Latina no es sólo realismo mágico, dicen autores
DPA

September 26, 2009
Scheherazade revisited: Nélida Piñon's "Voices of the Desert"
Thomas McGonigle
Los Angeles Times

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