Sue is performing at a  lecture by Katia Chornik to launch her new book: Alejo Carpentier: Blurring Genres  (Monday 23^rd November at 6.30. Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN). The event will include live Cuban music by Son Yambu (www.sonyambu.com) with special guest Sue Miller, and will be followed by drinks.
Reserve your seat at reservas.londres@cervantes.es

Miguel de Cervantes Award Lectures

Monday 23^rd November @ 6.30 p.m. at Instituto Cervantes

102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN

Alejo Carpentier: Blurring Genres

and book launch of

Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text (Legenda)

by Dr Katia Chornik (University of Manchester)

Miguel de Cervantes Award Lectures

Monday 23^rd November @ 6.30 p.m. at Instituto Cervantes

102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN

This lecture series has been organised by the

Embassy of Spain, Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs &

Instituto Cervantes London

To reserve a seat please contact: reservas.londres@cervantes.es

(Tel: 020 7201 0752)

The Swiss-born Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was the first Latin American to win the Miguel de Cervantes Award. His best known works include The Kingdom of this World, The Lost Steps and Explosion in a Cathedral.  Carpentier conceptualised the notion of lo real maravilloso americano (the [Latin] American marvellous real, aka magic realism), exerting a decisive influence on the writers of the so-called Latin American Boom. Carpentier also cultivated poetry, criticism and cultural journalism, and his lesser known activity in music was similarly varied: he worked as a researcher, radio and record producer, concert promoter and writer of song lyrics and libretti. He incorporated music in his fiction extensively, more than any other Latin American writer of his time. Born in Switzerland in 1904 to French and Russian parents, Carpentier spent most of his childhood in Cuba. He settled in Paris in 1928, where he became closely involved with the avant-gardes. In 1939 Carpentier left Europe for Cuba and Venezuela. Following the Cuban Revolution, he took on several official posts, working as a diplomat in Paris until his death in 1980.