DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
CARLOS A. AGUILERA
HOST:
ANAELI IBARRA
Synopsis:
A conversation about the project Diásporas, created by Carlos Aguilera in 1993 together with other writers, the concept of citizenship and working outside of state institutions, and the magazine of the same name that they launched in 1997 as a “more expository” space. His reflections on civil society and artists, his comparisons between his lived experience and the present, and finally, his work with InCubadora.
Bio:
Carlos A. Aguilera
(Havana Cuba, 1970)
Carlos A. Aguilera is a writer. In 1995 he won the Premio David poetry award (Havana), in 2007 the ICORN fellowship of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and in 2015 the Cintas in Miami. His most recent books include: Clausewitz y yo (nouvelle, 2021), Umberto Peña. Bocas, dientes, cepillos, restos (monograph, 2020), Teoría de la transficción (anthology, 2020), Archivo y terror. Operaciones entre literatura, política, teatro y arte (essay, 2019), Luis Cruz Azaceta. No exit (monograph, 2016), Matadero seis (nouvelle, 2016) y El imperio Oblómov (novel, 2014). He co-directed the magazine Diáspora(s) from 1997-2002. He coordinates the FluXus collection in Rialta (dedicated to the visual arts), and resides in Prague.
