Title: Listening to Mario Vargas Llosa
Speaker: Catalina Gómez (Librarian, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress); Talía Guzmán-González (Librarian, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress); Charlotte Rogers, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese Department, University of Virginia; Mario Vargas Llosa (author).
Series: La Biblioteca: Listening to the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape
Date: October 12, 2017
Running Time: 14:29 minutes
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Description:
Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa recorded for the Library of Congress’ Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape in 1977. Reference Librarians Catalina Gómez and Talía Guzmán-González speak with professor of Spanish Charlotte Rogers (University of Virginia) and discuss an excerpt from this historic recording. The episode also includes clips of other events with Vargas Llosa at the Library, including his interview with writer and journalist Marie Arana during the Library of Congress’ Living Legend Award ceremony in April, 2016. The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) is an audio archive of more than 750 recordings of poets and prose writers from the Luso-Hispanic world reading from their works. Part of the archive is now available for online streaming.
The entire list of authors recorded for the AHLOT can be consulted here.
