A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote talk

MartÍn Caparrós (A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell) will present the keynote talk, “Presenting the Present: Journalism in Latin America Today,”  on Thursday, April 24, at 4:30pm, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. A reception will follow in Klarman Atrium.

Open to all. Cosponsored by the Dept. of Romance Studies.

About the Speaker:

MartÍn Caparrós (Buenos Aires, 1957) earned a degree in history in Paris, and worked as a journalist in print, radio, and television. He directed book and cooking magazines, translated Voltaire, Shakespeare, and Quevedo, and received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Planeta and Herralde novel prizes, as well as the Tiziano Terzani, Roger Caillois, and Caballero Bonald essay awards. He also won the Rey de España, Moors Cabot, and Ortega y Gasset journalism prizes. He has published more than forty books in over thirty countries. His most recent works include the novels Sinfín and Sarmiento, the essays Ñamérica and El mundo entonces, and a peculiar semi-posthumous memoir titled Antes que nada. In 2023, Random House launched the “Biblioteca Martín Caparrós,” reissuing most of his works, starting with about 15 previous titles.

Caparrós visits Cornell as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large April 21-25, 2025.