Join us for an evening with writer and artist Eduardo Lalo, who will be reading from and signing his recent publications, Intemperie and Simone. Host César A. Salgado will also talk with Lalo about his books and the translation of his work into English. Please note that parts of this event will be conducted in Spanish.

An award-winning Puerto Rican writer, essayist, photographer, and visual artist, Eduardo Lalo is known for cross-genre books that express his passion for both words and images. Among his titles are La Isla Silente (2002), Los Pies De San Juan (2002), La Inutilidad (2004), Donde (2005), Los Países Invisibles (2008), El Deseo Del Lápiz (2010), Necrópolis (2014), and Intemperie (2016). In 2013 he won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize for Simone (2011), now available in English from The University of Chicago Press. His visual work has been featured in numerous exhibitions. LLILAS Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin for Fall 2016, Lalo is currently teaching the graduate seminar Caribbean Poetics. Known for razor sharp columns in the island’s press, Lalo is today among the most outspoken and resolute critics of recurring colonialism in Puerto Rico and the world.