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On The Peculiarities Of Latin American Culture
This is the Inaugural Lecture of the LAC Academic Year
Hector Abad Faciolince is a Colombian writer, translator, and journalist. He has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and the University of Iowa in the United States. Among his most widely read books, translated into English, are Oblivion. A Memoir; Recipes for Sad Women; and The Farm. His two most recent books are a chronicle of a trip to Ukraine that ended in tragedy, Ahora y en la hora, which narrates the last days of the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amélina, and a short novel in which an elderly retired philosophy professor, outraged by the famine in Palestine, tries to smuggle food into Gaza: Con tres dedos se escribe. Abad Faciolince, born in Medellín in 1958, began various careers in his country (Philosophy, Medicine, Journalism), but finally graduated in Modern Languages and Literature from the University of Turin, Italy.
Date:
14 October 2025, 17:00
Venue:
Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details:
Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Speaker:
Héctor Abad Faciolince
Organising department:
Latin American Centre
Organiser:
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Part of:
LAC Main Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Eliza Flindall
