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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Salvadoran Consulate, Casa El Salvador, and the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University are pleased to invite you to the following events:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TUESDAY 11/29/11 (THIS AFTERNOON) 4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lecture/Discussion: “Reflections on the role of culture and art on the development of Central American civil society”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Room 132 (first floor), 685 Commonwealth Ave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>WEDNESDAY 11/30/11, 6:00 pm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Manlio Argueta presents the Salvadoran film: "Maria en tierra de nadie"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building 101, 565 Commonwealth Ave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>THURSDAY 12/1/11, 5:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Poetry Reading by Manlio Argueta<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Room 132 (first floor), 685 Commonwealth Ave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Manlio Argueta is one of Central America’s greatest living writers. Born in San Miguel, El Salvador, in 1935, Argueta was a member of the “Generación Comprometida” that arose in El Salvador in the mid-1950’s and that included other prominent Salvadoran writers such as Roque Dalton, Roberto Armijo, and Italo López Vallecillos. Author of many volumes of poetry and nine novels, he is perhaps best known for Un día en la vida (1980). Translated into fifteen languages and taught at universities throughout the world, the novel depicts the terrible repression in the Salvadoran countryside just prior to the beginning of the country’s civil war (1980-1992). During his years in political exile in Costa Rica, Argueta was the Director of EDUCA, a key Central American academic and literary publisher, and taught at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Since the year 2000 he has served as the Director of El Salvador’s National Library, a role in which he has worked hard to rebuild the country’s civil society in the post-war era. Argueta has lectured and done readings of his work throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe. His Poesía completa was published by Ediciones Hispamérica of the University of Maryland in 2005. Among the many awards and prizes he has received are the Spanish government’s Orden de Mérito Cívico and the Casa de las Américas novel prize (Caperucita en la zona roja, 1978).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All events are free. Please come!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>