Eduardo Lago (born 31 January 1954) is a Spanish novelist, translator,
and literary critic, born in Madrid and currently living in Manhattan,
New York, United States. In 2002, he was the recipient of the
Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism for his
critical comparison of three Spanish translations of James Joyce’s
novel, Ulysses. In 2006, he won the Premio Nadal, Spain's oldest and
most prestigious literary award, for his first novel, Llámame
Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn). For many years, he interviewed North
American writers for the literary supplement Babelia in the Spanish
newspaper El PaÃs. He returned to teaching Spanish, Spanish
literature, and European Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in
Yonkers in 2011, after leaving in 2005 for the position of Director of
the Cervantes Institute in New York.He is a founding member of the
Order of Finnegans, which takes its name from a pub in Dalkey,
Ireland, although there are those who believe it also comes from James
Joyce’s last novel, Finnegans Wake. The knights of the Order of
Finnegans must venerate James Joyce’s novel Ulysses and, if
possible, attend Bloomsday each year in Dublin on the sixteenth of
June. This is a long day that culminates, at dusk, at the Martello
tower in Sandycove (where the novel begins) with participants reading
sections from Ulysses and then walking to Finnegans pub in the
neighbouring village of Dalkey. The other four founding members are
Enrique Vila-Matas, Jordi Soler, Antonio Soler and Malcolm Otero
Barral.
and literary critic, born in Madrid and currently living in Manhattan,
New York, United States. In 2002, he was the recipient of the
Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism for his
critical comparison of three Spanish translations of James Joyce’s
novel, Ulysses. In 2006, he won the Premio Nadal, Spain's oldest and
most prestigious literary award, for his first novel, Llámame
Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn). For many years, he interviewed North
American writers for the literary supplement Babelia in the Spanish
newspaper El PaÃs. He returned to teaching Spanish, Spanish
literature, and European Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in
Yonkers in 2011, after leaving in 2005 for the position of Director of
the Cervantes Institute in New York.He is a founding member of the
Order of Finnegans, which takes its name from a pub in Dalkey,
Ireland, although there are those who believe it also comes from James
Joyce’s last novel, Finnegans Wake. The knights of the Order of
Finnegans must venerate James Joyce’s novel Ulysses and, if
possible, attend Bloomsday each year in Dublin on the sixteenth of
June. This is a long day that culminates, at dusk, at the Martello
tower in Sandycove (where the novel begins) with participants reading
sections from Ulysses and then walking to Finnegans pub in the
neighbouring village of Dalkey. The other four founding members are
Enrique Vila-Matas, Jordi Soler, Antonio Soler and Malcolm Otero
Barral.
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