Lannan Readings & Conversations
Carlos Fuentes
with Michael SilverblattThursday September 13 2001
No audio available from this event.
Carlos Fuentes is a novelist and essayist whose books include The Death of Artemio Cruz, A New Time for Mexico, Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, The Orange Tree, and The Years with Laura Diaz.
Mr. Fuentes was born in Panama and educated in schools in Mexico, the United States, and various cities of South America. A diplomat who has served as Mexico's ambassador to France, he is currently a member of Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights.
Mr. Fuentes has been honored with the Latin Civilization Award from the French and Brazilian academies.
Michael Silverblatt, a New York native, studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he came under the influence of such cutting-edge author-teachers as Donald Barthelme and John Barth. Dubbed "the best reader in America" by Norman Mailer, he is the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, which he created in 1989 for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. He has participated in numerous Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and A.S. Byatt, among others. Bookworm airs locally on KSFR 101.1FM every Sunday at 1:30pm.
