"India on the works by Octavio Paz" seminar at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 10am on 6th September 2014

Time : 10:00 am Add to Calendar 06-09-2014 10:00:00 06-09-2014 11:30:00 68 "India on the works by Octavio Paz" seminar Event Page : http://goo.gl/B1ismk Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Event Description : "India on the works by Octavio Paz" seminar.

About the author : Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was a Mexican poet, writer, essayist and diplomat, Nobel Prize of Literature in 1990. He is recognized as one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century and one of the greatest hispanic poets from all the times. He was also Embassador of Mexico in india since 1962 to 1968, a country wich marked his works deeply, as we can see in several explamples of his wrtitting like “Glimmer of India”, “The Gramatic Monkey” or the poems book “Ladera este”.

Synopsis : On this round table the audience will know more about Paz and his works, including his poetry (by Caroline Dubois -Toulousse University- and Subhro Bandyopadhyay –poet-), the influence of India in his life and works (by the hispanist Shyama Prasad Ganguly, Malabika Bhattacharya, and Indranil Chakravarty), and also his thoughts and essays (by Minni Sawhney -Delhi University- Carlos Varona -Instituto Cervantes-, and Meenakshi Sundriyal –JNU-).  

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