Friday, February 14 6:30–8:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “We Read and Write for the Benefit of Memory and Imagination”
Jorge’s personal account of remembrance and invention, the in...
Friday, February 14 6:30–8:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “We Read and Write for the Benefit of Memory and Imagination”
Jorge’s personal account of remembrance and invention, the insane sanity of a reader, and the healthy malady of writing. He will tell anecdotes from his experience as a writer with the aim of finding different ways to work with inspiration, and transform ideas into an endearing text.
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Jorge F. Hernández is the author of five novels, three short story collections, and numerous essays and newspaper columns over many years. Of special interest to us in San Miguel, he wrote Microhistory of the Sanctuary of Atononilco, for which he won the Atanasio G. Saravia National Prize for Banamex Regional History.
His anthology entitled Sun, Stone and Shadows: Twenty Mexican Short Story Writers from the First Half of the 20th Century was chosen for the United States government reading program as a book in The Big Read of the National Endowment for the Arts, in its English translation.
He has taught at various institutions in both Mexico and Spain including UNAM, ITAM, Universidad Anáhuac, the Hellenic Cultural Center, and the Foundation for Mexican Letters.
As a radio personality, he was host of the “Golpe de dados,” a cultural news program on channel 22 of Mexican television during 2010. He collaborated with Leo Zuckerman and Julio Patán on the program “Artículo Sexto” on Radio Formula in 2012 and 2013.
Jorge F. Hernández was Minister of Cultural Affairs of the Mexican Embassy in Spain and Director of the Cultural Institute of Mexico in Madrid. He also helped to rescue the oldest bookstore in Madrid, which had been destined to become a pizza parlor! He was born in Mexico City and spent his childhood in Cologne, Germany, and Washington, D.C. where his father was a diplomat for Mexico’s foreign service.
