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Graduate student and author Dainerys Machado Vento was recently honored by the prestigious Granta literary magazine.
By Barbara Gutierrez
04-20-2021 Graduate student named among world’s best Spanish-language writers By Barbara Gutierrez
04-20-2021
Dainerys Machado Vento, a graduate student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, is among the promising young writers honored by the prestigious Granta literary magazine.
When the pandemic started in March 2020, Dainerys Machado Vento, a graduate student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, was co-teaching an interdisciplinary curatorial course.
Lillian Manzor, an associate professor in the department who was teaching the course with her, remembers that when the students shared their situations and their feelings of uncertainty and discouragement, Machado Vento would tell them repeatedly, “remember that there is poetry and art to help us through these d
2021-01-07 05:05:42 GMT2021-01-07 13:05:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Yosley Carrero
HAVANA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Rogelio Rodriguez, 74, has won Cuba s 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for a book that examines Chinese influence on Cuban literature.
Published under the title The Chinese Trace in the Cuban Literature, Rodriguez s award-winning work provides readers with an in-depth analysis on how novels portray China s intangible cultural heritage like My Uncle, the Employee by Ramon Meza, and Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima.
The author, also president of the Cuban Academy of the Spanish Language and senior professor at the University of Havana, said Chinese descendants have substantially contributed to enhancing historical links that unite the two countries.