Eduardo Lalo

Eduardo Lalo is a Puerto Rican writer and visual artist known for a body of work that moves between literature, visual art, and cultural criticism. He is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico and a researcher at the Institute of Caribbean Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Simone, winner of the 2013 Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize, as well as essays and photo-essays such as Los pies de San Juan, El deseo del lápiz, and Lo roto, lo mentido, lo abandonado. His visual work has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as CELARG (Venezuela), Fundación Cortés (Puerto Rico), the Benson Library at the University of Texas–Austin, and Point of Contact at Syracuse University, where his piece Árboles (2015) became part of the permanent collection. In 2015, Lalo’s work was presented by Point of Contact in a solo show: Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations (Oscuridades/Detrito/Iluminaciones), which opened to the public just as a collection of his poems was released in the 2015 edition of Point of Contact’s annual poetry edition, Corresponding Voices.

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