Book Launch: Identities — Essays on Slavic Literature

Argentinian Slavist Eugenio López Ariasu at Parobrod

The launch of his book Identities/Essays on Slavic Literature will be held in Parobrod’s cinema hall on Monday, 9 November at 6 pm.

In conversation

• Eugenio López Ariasu, author
• Dragana Bajić, translator
• Vladislav Bajac, founder and editor-in-chief of Geopoetika

Biography

Eugenio López Ariasu is head of the Slavic Studies Department at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, where he also teaches North American literature and literary translation. For his translation work (in addition to Latin, Portuguese, French, and English, he also speaks most Slavic languages, including Serbian), López Ariasu has received numerous national and international awards.

He is the author of significant academic books: Pushkin, Satirist and Realist; Slavic Studies Essays; Identities — Essays on Slavic Literature; Balkan Borges; The Reception of J. L. Borges among the South Slavs.

He has published eight poetry collections, a short story collection, and the novel Lembu. The Inglorious, Turbulent Life of the Never-Sergeant Cabral, for which he received the second prize of the National Arts Fund (FNA) for 2022.

He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

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