DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES and the
LATIN AMERICAN and CARIBBEAN STUDIES PROGRAM present
THE GREAT HISPANIC WRITERS SERIES
Poetry Reading and Dialogue with RUDOLFO
HÄSLER
The poet and translator Rodolfo Häsler will offer a select reading of his poems and will give a lecture on the process of translating into Spanish the works of Novalis and Frank Kafka.
Rodolfo Häsler was born in Cuba and has lived in Barcelona since he was ten years old. He studied Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Some of his poetry books are: Poemas de la rue de Zurich (Miguel Gómez Ediciones, Málaga, 2000), Paisaje,tiempoazul (Editorial Aldus, Ciudad de México, 2001), Cabeza de ébano (Ediciones Igitur, Barcelona, 2007 and Ediciones El Quirófano, Guayaquil, 2014), Diario de la urraca (Huerga y Fierro Editores, Madrid, Editorial Mangos de Hacha, Ciudad de México, Kálathos Ediciones, Caracas, 2013), Lengua de lobo (Hiperión, Madrid, 2019, XII Claudio Rodríguez International Poetry Prize), and Jabón de Nablus (Ril editores, 2024). He has translated the complete poetry of Novalis, the mini stories of Franz Kafka, and a selection from Frankétienne's Anthologie secrète. He is the author of the poetry anthology El festín de la llama by the Bolivian poet Blanca Wiethüchter.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2024 4:20-5:45 p.m.
The Parlor Room, Hofstra Hall, South Campus
Admission is FREE and open to the public. To RSVP, visit e events.hofstra.edu.
For more information, call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture.
