 | Carlos Fuentes |
Carlos Fuentes, noted author and Mexican statesman, will visit Yale as a Chubb Fellow and present a lecture titled "Globalization: Pros and Cons" on Wednesday, April 14.
His talk will be held at 4:30 p.m. at Center Church on the Green, 250 Temple St. It is free and open to the public.
Fuentes is being honored with the Chubb Fellowship for his work as novelist, essayist, scholar and diplomat. He is recognized as one of the greatest literary and political figures in the world.
His novels include the classics "Terra Nostra," "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and the New York Times bestseller "The Old Gringo." In each, he examines the identity of Latin America, its internal conflicts -- which are complicated by a triple lineage (Native American, African and Spanish) -- and its contentious relationship with the United States. In his essays and non-fiction (including "The Buried Mirror," which was made into a television series for the Discovery Channel), Fuentes seeks to reclaim that identity and celebrate the contributions of Latino culture.
The son of a Mexican diplomat, Fuentes spent most of his childhood in Washington, D.C. After earning his law degree from the National University of Mexico, he was a member of the Mexican delegation to the International Labor Organization. He served his government as director of International Cultural Relations and ambassador to France.
Fuentes inaugurated the Robert F. Kennedy Chair in Latin American Studies at Harvard and was the Simon Bolivar Professor at Cambridge. He is currently Professor at Large at Brown University.
He received the National Prize in Literature, Mexico's highest literary award; the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the highest honor for a Spanish-language writer; and the first Latin Civilization Award, presented by the presidents of Brazil, Mexico and France. He was the third writer to receive the Romulo Gallegos Prize, following Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fuentes holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Cambridge, Wesleyan, Georgetown and Dartmouth.
The Chubb Fellowship is devoted to encouraging and aiding Yale students interested in the operations of government, culture and public service. Established in 1936 through the generosity of Hendon Chubb (Yale 1895), the program is based in Timothy Dwight College. Each year three or four distinguished men and women are appointed as Visiting Chubb Fellows. Chubb Fellows spend their time at Yale in informal contact with students and deliver a public lecture. Former Chubb Fellows have included Presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter; New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman; authors Octavio Paz and Toni Morrison; and journalist Walter Cronkite.
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