Poetry night with Cristian Aliaga
Event Information
Description
Sydney University Research Community for Latin America (SURCLA) presents
Poetry night with Cristian Aliaga
Join us for an evening of poetry with Cristian Aliaga. Come and meet the poet himself and enjoy Cristian Aliaga’s reading of extracts from La causa clinica and La pasión extranjera. These poems will be read in Spanish, English translations will be available on PowerPoint.
About the speaker
Cristian Aliaga is a journalist, teacher, poet, and researcher based in Chubut, Argentina. He runs the publisher Espacio Hudson in Lago Puelo and the paper El Extremo Sur. His poetry includes Musica desconocida para viajes/Unknown Music for Journeys (2nd ed., 2009), The Foreign Passion/La pasion extranjera (bilingual edition, 2016) and the anthology Estrellas en el vidrio/Stars in the Glass (2003).
Cristian Aliaga will be participating in the World Literatures and the Global South Conference at the University of Sydney on 23–25 August 2019.
About SURCLA
The Sydney University Research Community for Latin America (SURCLA) is an academic research network encouraging ideas, debate and research strategies which provides a dynamic forum for scholarly communication and interaction with the common goal of advancing knowledge of Latin America in Australia.
For more information, contact: Nicole Fidalgo (PhD Candidate, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies) – nicole.fidalgo@sydney.edu.au