The International Literature Festival Celebrates the Poetry of the Americas


Each year, the University of Houston Department of Hispanic Studies and the International Literature Festival organized by Casa Cultural de las Américas partners to bring Houston and surrounding communities in closer contact with the creative work of some of the most outstanding writers of the Americas. The Festival provides an exceptional opportunity to meet renowned authors such as Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa and Ida Vitale, recent winner of FIL Literary Award (Guadalajara’s International Book Fair) in Romance Languages, as well as other prominent authors such as Deborah Mouton and Luis Garcia Montero, among others.

This annual event, in its 2018 version, will be led by the celebrated Colombian poet Juan Manuel Roca, who will be accompanied by Tamara Kamenszain (Argentina), Mabel Cuesta and Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (Cuba), Abdón Ubidia (Ecuador), Coral Bracho and Rocío Cerón (Mexico), Jordi Virallonga Eguren (Spain), Carmen Giménez Smith (USA), Martha Canfield (Uruguay) and Adalber Salas (Venezuela).

The opening ceremony will be presided the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and M.D. Anderson Professor in Hispanic Studies Dr. Antonio D. Tillis, on Tuesday November 6th 2018 at 4:00 p.m., at the University of Houston Main Campus, Student Center South-Skyline Room.