Mexican author Carlos Fuentes to speak at Baker Institute

Mexican author Carlos Fuentes to speak at Baker Institute

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News staff

Carlos Fuentes, the noted Mexican author, scholar and diplomat, will speak at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy April 28 on contemporary issues in Latin America. His lecture, titled “A New Deal for a New Age,” begins at 6:30 p.m.

CARLOS FUENTES

Fuentes was one of the leading figures of Latin America’s literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s and has garnered some of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. He has written more than 15 novels, including ”Terra Nostra,” ”The Death of Artemio Cruz” and ”The Old Gringo.”

He also has had a varied career as a diplomat and scholar and is currently a professor at large at Brown University.

With this event, the Baker Institute’s Latin American Initiative launches its Vecinos Lecture Series, which brings Latin American political and cultural leaders to Houston to discuss major issues facing Latin America.

The event will be held in James A. Baker III Hall’s Doré Commons.

Rice faculty, staff and students who want to attend must RSVP by e-mail (bipprsvp@rice.edu) or by fax (713-348-5993).