Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau
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Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau is a novelist, poet and essayist, born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
in 1964. After he completed his secondary education in the province of Tucumán
, he settled in Buenos Aires
, where he studied Languages, Philosophy and Law. He further pursued his studies for more than twelve years in Canada, USA and France.
Carlos Alvarado graduated with honors in Comparative literature
and French literature
at the University of Montreal, Canada, having obtained a fellowship from the Ministry of Education of Quebec
. Moreover, he got a diploma with honors from Florida International University
, Miami, United States and the Sorbonne University, France.
He lectures at several universities and colleges in Argentina and publishes on literature in specialized media. He was visiting professor at other worldwide universities. He is a member of Golden Key International Honour Society
, International PEN
, PEN of Algeria, of the "Gens de Lettres de Paris" and other recognized academic, literature, cultural and social institutions.
In the year 2008 he was specially invited to Algeria
by the Ministry of Culture to present a lecture on: (Silence at the heart of a purely Algerian representation system), a presentation which opened the conference general session during the Algiers First International Meeting on Literary Translation, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Algeria in collaboration with the Higher Arab Institute for Translation of Algiers, International PEN and PEN of Algeria.
In 2009, in Buenos Aires, he was a key speaker with a lecture on Moroccan literature and Borges
's literature at “Borges - France” Colloquium. IV International Comparative Literature Symposium organized by the Universidad Católica Argentina. Meetings were chaired by Prof. Pierre Brunel of the Sorbonne, and sponsored by the French embassy in Argentina and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. Alvarado-Larroucau is a specialist in Francophone literature of Argentine; Francophone literature of the Maghreb
and Mashrek; and Literature of francophone Africa.
He has published in Spanish and French, he is considered a Argentinean Francophone author.
During 2010, he participated in the FRENCH HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROGRAM FHLP, a program designed to support and enrich the teaching and learning of French language, literature, and culture for students of Francophone background. FHLP is a Program of the French American Cultural Exchange FACE, with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York and the French Embassy in the U.S. At present he translates the French poetry of Etel Adnan
, and he prepares a special work on biblical heroines with Donato Grima
, contemporary artist from Tucumán.
Published in Diario Central de Poesía, San Isidro
, Buenos Aires
, December 2007.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
in 1964. After he completed his secondary education in the province of Tucumán
Tucumán Province
Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...
, he settled in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, where he studied Languages, Philosophy and Law. He further pursued his studies for more than twelve years in Canada, USA and France.
Carlos Alvarado graduated with honors in Comparative literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
and French literature
French literature
French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens...
at the University of Montreal, Canada, having obtained a fellowship from the Ministry of Education of Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. Moreover, he got a diploma with honors from Florida International University
Florida International University
Florida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...
, Miami, United States and the Sorbonne University, France.
He lectures at several universities and colleges in Argentina and publishes on literature in specialized media. He was visiting professor at other worldwide universities. He is a member of Golden Key International Honour Society
Golden Key International Honour Society
The Golden Key International Honour Society is an Atlanta, Georgia-based non-profit organization founded in 1977 to recognise academic achievement among college and university students in all disciplines....
, International PEN
International PEN
PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....
, PEN of Algeria, of the "Gens de Lettres de Paris" and other recognized academic, literature, cultural and social institutions.
In the year 2008 he was specially invited to Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
by the Ministry of Culture to present a lecture on: (Silence at the heart of a purely Algerian representation system), a presentation which opened the conference general session during the Algiers First International Meeting on Literary Translation, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Algeria in collaboration with the Higher Arab Institute for Translation of Algiers, International PEN and PEN of Algeria.
In 2009, in Buenos Aires, he was a key speaker with a lecture on Moroccan literature and Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
's literature at “Borges - France” Colloquium. IV International Comparative Literature Symposium organized by the Universidad Católica Argentina. Meetings were chaired by Prof. Pierre Brunel of the Sorbonne, and sponsored by the French embassy in Argentina and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. Alvarado-Larroucau is a specialist in Francophone literature of Argentine; Francophone literature of the Maghreb
Maghreb
The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...
and Mashrek; and Literature of francophone Africa.
He has published in Spanish and French, he is considered a Argentinean Francophone author.
During 2010, he participated in the FRENCH HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROGRAM FHLP, a program designed to support and enrich the teaching and learning of French language, literature, and culture for students of Francophone background. FHLP is a Program of the French American Cultural Exchange FACE, with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York and the French Embassy in the U.S. At present he translates the French poetry of Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist.In 2003 MELUS, the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, called Adnan "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today."She has said, "As for any...
, and he prepares a special work on biblical heroines with Donato Grima
Donato Grima
Donato Grima, contemporary Argentine artist. Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, on July 22, 1949.- Biography :Donato Grima Argentine visual artist. Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, on July 22, 1949. He studied arts and design. During the 70’s, he moved to Caracas, Venezuela. He did not return to his home...
, contemporary artist from Tucumán.
Awards
- 1999: “Fleur de Lys” of the French Society of Huguenots of Florida.
- 2003: First Prize, Diploma of Honor, in the contest "Petits Poèmes en Prose" of La Sorbonne.
- 2008: Honorable Mention of the SADE (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores), Sade Calchaquies Valley chapter. Best book of poems published in Tucumán in 2007 for his book Con Tinta de amapolas
- 2008: Honorable Mention of the city of VogheraVogherathumb|250px|The Castle of Voghera in a 19th century etching.Voghera is a town and comune of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Pavia...
, Comune di Voghera, (Italy), for his article “Ernesto Nava”, published in the book Italianos en Tucumán, Historias de vida.
Comments on his work
About his poetry, Professor Adrian Baró (from Argentina), stated:
It would be impossible not to find in the poetry of Alvarado, some echoes some that are unique to the French literature he studies. Like other French-speaking writers, he has exchanged ideas intimately with the great Gallic poets like Saint-John Perse, Max Jacob and Mallarmé; and absorbed a certain amount of unavoidable melancholy reading Proust. In Alvarado work there is a certain lyricism inherited from romanticism "that never stops". […] In his work there is an aspiration to achieve a powerful synthesis, evoking an inside atmosphere from the mere observation of the simple things in the manner of Rilke, and this is visible in several of his poems such as in "what trivial: the perfect, the fleeting: the eternal ". The poet says to all "Tucumán", and so is his word, his utterance is loaded with nuances of his country, with some way to express itself to the whole region of northwest Argentina. Doubtless the poet knows the works of poets tucumanos Pablo Rojas Paz, Omar Estrella and Ariadna Chaves, among others. His verse, like that of the poets of his land, is carefree adjectives as austere as accurate.
Published in Diario Central de Poesía, San Isidro
San Isidro, Buenos Aires
San Isidro, Buenos Aires is a municipality in Greater Buenos Aires and one of the most affluent municipalities in Argentina. It is located in San Isidro Partido in the Buenos Aires Province....
, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, December 2007.
Conferences
- 11/2011 "La Littérature francophone d'Argentine", Embassy of Lebanon in Argentina.
- 10/2010 "Joubert à la lumière de FoucaultFoucaultFoucault can refer to:People:*Jean-Pierre Foucault , French television host*Léon Foucault , French physicist*Michel Foucault , French philosopher and historian...
et la pensée du dehors", IV International Symposium Joseph JoubertJoseph JoubertJoseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées published posthumously....
, Sens (Yonne), France. - 09/2009 "L'enfant de sable, (The Sand ChildThe Sand ChildThe Sand Child is a 1985 novel by Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun. First published in France, the novel's message expresses on multiple levels ideas about the post-colonial condition of Morocco whilst also emphasising themes relating to the construction of individual identities...
) of Tahar Ben JellounTahar Ben JellounTahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:...
, Morocco in Buenos Aires. Francophone homage to Borges poet. Borges-France Colloquium. IV International Symposium of Comparative Literature, Catholic University of Argentina. Buenos Aires. - 03/2009 "Écrivains Argentins d'expression française sur les poètes: Maria Isabel Viedma et Susana Calandrelli, francophone Literature of Argentine, from 1869 to 2009." Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aires.
- 12/2008 "Traduire la littérature algerienne de langue française. Le silence au cœur d'un système de représentation purement algérien." Algiers (Algeria).
- 09/2008 "Assia Djebar, an Algerian writer in the French Academy. Alberto Rouges Cultural Center, Tucuman.
- 07/2008 "Assia Djebar, an Algerian writer in the French Academy. Alliance Française of Buenos Aires.
- 11/2007 "From life to death. Egyptian rites and ceremonies from birth to death. Exploring the Egyptian tales. Cultural entity of the Province of Tucumán, Tafi del Valle (Tucumán).
- 05/2007 "The identity, a recurring theme of an emerging literature. Poesia French expression Mashreq. IIIrd May of Letters in Tucuman, The Ministry of Culture of the Province of Tucuman. Tucuman.
Books
- Je suis aussi ..., preface by Dominique BarbérisDominique BarbérisDominique Barberis, born in 1958, is a French novelist, author of literary studies and university professor, specialist in stylistics and writing workshops.-Biography:...
, Paris: L'Harmattan (Coll. Poètes des cinq continents), 2009. - Poèmes, a bilingual edition, French-Arabic, Algiers: Artistique, 2009.
- Écritures Palestiniennes francophones. Quête d'identité en espace néoloconial. Paris: L'Harmattan (Coll. Critiques littéraires), 2009.
- Con tinta de amapolas (poetry). Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentine: Lucio Pierola Ediciones, 2007.
Anthologies & joint works
- « Lisandro Alvarado», Hace Tiempo en el Noroeste t.III, éd. Alba Omil, Yerba Buena (Tucumán): Lucio Piérola Ediciones, 2010.
- "Écrire ces vers" and "Tatuajes y cuerpos escritos", in Aturucuto, nº1, San Miguel de Tucumán: Argentina, novembre 2009.
- "Poemas para una noche quieta," in Espejos del tiempo, espejos del alma, anthology, Yerba Buena: Lucio Pierola Editions, 2009.
- "Preface critical", in Maria Elisa Gallo: Teclas Negras, Yerba Buena: Lucio Pierola Editions, 2008.
- "Stories and Poems," in Escritores de Tucumán, siglo XXI, an anthology of writers from Tucuman, joint work, Yerba Buena: Lucio Pierola Editions, 2008.
- "Ernesto Nava" in OMIL Alba (ed.): Italianos de Tucuman, historias de vida (joint work, biographies). Yerba Buena: Lucio Pierola Ediciones, 2007.
Articles and academic texts
- "Joubert à la lumière de Foucault et la pensée du dehors", Jean-Luc Dauphin et Ariane Lüthi (éds.), Actes du 4e Colloque Joseph Joubert, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, 2011.
- "El Niño de arena, de Marruecos a Buenos Aires. Homenaje francófono a Borges poeta", Magdalena Cámpora, Javier R. González (éds.), Borges-Francia, Selectus, UCA (Universidad Católica Argentina), 2011.
- Pablo de Santis. Los Anticuarios, Gramma, Año XXI, nº47, 2010 Fac de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad del Salvador, 2010.
- Les Précieuses argentines. Littérature francophone d'Argentine Francophonie, nº 18, University of CádizUniversity of CádizThe University of Cádiz , commonly referred to as UCA, is a public university located in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, noted for its medicine and marine sciences curricula. It was founded in 1979, and has the Latin motto Non Plus Ultra...
, 2009. - "Traduire la littérature algérienne de langue française. Le silence au cœur d'un système de représentation purement algérien. International Journal of Translation in Modern Research Laboratory, Languages and Translation at the Faculty of Arts, Languages and Arts. Department of Translation. Mentouri Constantine University, Algeria, No. 4, July 2009.
- "Jean-Marie Adiaffi et sa carte d'identité. Une identité et à chercher à défendre "in Philanthropies (Journal of African and Africanist students at the Sorbonne). Paris: ADEAS, No. 3, February 2005.