Eduardo Lago

MA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. PhD, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Special interests in translation theory, the aesthetics of the Baroque, and the connections among contemporary US Latino, Iberian, Spanish American, and Luso-Brazilian fiction writers. Author of Ladrón de mapas (Map Thief), a collection of short stories published in September 2007; Cuentos disperses (Scattered Tales, 2000), a collection of short stories; and Cuaderno de Méjico (Mexican Notebook, 2000), a memoir of a trip to Chiapas. First novel Llámame Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn, 2006) won Spain’s Nadal Prize and the City of Barcelona Award for best novel of the year, the Fundación Lara Award for the novel with the best critical reception, the National Critics Award, and best novel of the year in Spain by El Mundo. Recipient of the 2002 Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism. Currently director of Instituto Cervantes of New York. SLC, 1994–