We have the great pleasure in announcing that Mr. Federico Díaz Granados will be our Distinguished Visiting Professor this Fall!

Mr. Federico Díaz Granados, who resides in Bogotá, Colombia, is one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Spanish-American poetry. Close to 200 critics from more than 100 universities (Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, and Princeton, among them) elected him the most significant Colombian poet born after 1970.

He has directed thirteen meetings of the Festival Internacional de Literatura Las Líneas de su Mano, which has gathered together more than 400 Colombian and 250 international authors including several winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Cervantes Prize and Poets laureate of the Congress of the United States. Likewise, he has organized events with the participation of Nobel Literature laureates Mario Vargas Llosa, Svetlana Alexievich and John M. Coetzee; Nobel Peace Prize winners Jody Williams and Juan Manuel Santos and the Nobel laureate in Medicine Harald Zur Hausen. He is the director of the press Valparaíso Ediciones. For several years he has organized the Taller de Poesía del Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Taller Distrital de Poesía Ciudad de Bogotá.

Mr. Federico Díaz Granados will be teaching an undergraduate course, SPAN 4520 section 003 Colombia and Its Culture (Last 50 Years), and a graduate seminar, SPAN 7850 003 Latin American Poetry Today. Please join us in giving a warm welcome to Mr. Granados!