DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
JORGE FERRER

HOST:
ANAELI IBARRA


Synopsis:

Conversation with Cuban writer, columnist and translator Jorge Ferrer. In the talk, Ferrer spoke of his relationship with memory through the work of the translator, as well as the need to rescue the history of the present with an explicit view to the future, always emphasizing the victims. He also argued that literature focused on the rescue of memory in post-59 Cuba is not enough. The guest told how he experienced the changes that ended with the dismantling of the USSR in the 1980s, his return to Cuba and his participation in the founding of the Paideia group. He also spoke of the urgency of working with the past and clarifying it to ensure its non-repetition in a democratic Cuba.

Bio:

Jorge Ferrer Díaz (Havana, Cuba, 1967) is a Cuban writer, journalist and literary translator living in Barcelona. He has published chronicles, essays, interviews and columns in El Mundo, Letras Libres, La Lectura, Letra Internacional, La Razón, El Estornudo, Fashion & Arts Magazine, El Nuevo Herald, World Literature Today, Ajoblanco, Cambio16, La Tempestad, Indeks Bezopasnosti, La maleta de Portbou and Caleta, among other magazines and newspapers.

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