2007 Press Releases
Acclaimed Mexican Poets Visit UCC
The Centre for Mexican Studies, UCC, in conjunction with the Mexican
Embassy, Dublin will host a visit to UCC by Mexican Poets, Francisco
Segovia and Myriam Moscona tomorrow, Tuesday, 1 May. The
readings, which will be in Spanish and English, will take place in the
O'Rahilly Building, Room 1.24 at 5pm.
Francisco Segovia (Mexico City, 1958) is a poet, translator and essayist. Among his books of poems are Fin de fiesta, El aire habitado and Rellano. He is also author of the essay book Retra hablado and the short prose collections Abalorios y otras cuentas and Conferencia de vampiros.
He has taught literature at several universities, including UNAM and El
Colegio de México, and has worked as a lexicographer for a handful of
reference books including the Diccionario del Español de México,
Enciclopedia Británica and Oxford Spanish Dictionary.
Myriam Moscona (Mexico City, 1955) is a Mexican journalist, translator
and poet who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family. She
has published several collections of poems including Último jardín (1983), Las visitantes (1989, Winner of National Poetry Prize of Aguascalientes), Las preguntas de Natalia (1992), El árbol de los nombres (1992), Negro marfil y Vísperas
(1997). She has also worked extensively on translation and won
the National Prize for Poetry in Translation in 1996 for her
translation (along with Adriana González Mateos) of William Carlos
Williams's La música del desierto.
Members of the public are invited to attend and admissions is free.
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