Eduardo Lago To Lead the Cervantes Institute

-- Críticas, 7/15/2006

The Cervantes Institute has named award-winning author Eduardo Lago the new director of the New York center. Lago replaces fellow writer Antonio Muñoz Molina who held the post for two years.

Earlier this year, Lago won Spain’s prestigious Nadal Prize for his debut Llámame Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn). He received the Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism in 2002 for his critical comparison of three Spanish translations of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Lago is the translator of authors like Henry James, John Barth, William Howells Dean, Sylvia Plath and Junot Diaz. He currently teaches Spanish and Spanish literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.

Muñoz Molina’s next novel, El viento de la luna (The Moon’s Wind) will be published this fall, according to Spanish media.