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 Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: Discussion With Paco Ignacio Taibo II - Monday, 4th February |
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THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND ENGLISH, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
PRESENT
Paco Ignacio Taibo II,
NOVELIST AND BIOGRAPHER OF CHE GUEVARA AND PANCHO VILLA
IN CONVERSATION WITH KAVITA PANJABI
AT VIVEKANANDA HALL, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
ON MONDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2008, AT 4 P.M.
ALL ARE WELCOME
Paco Ignacio Taibo II has published over 50 books, including novels, short stories, comics, essays and journalism in over 20 countries. His police novels include a series about a Mexican detective called Hector Belascoaran Shayne, introduced in Combat Days (Dias de combate). He has received many awards, including the Grijalbo Award in 1982 for Heroes convocados: manual par la toma der poder (Heroes convoked: manual for overthrowing the government) and the Francisco Javier Clavijero Award in 1987 for Bolsheviques: Historia narrativa de los origenes del comunismo en Mexico, 1919-1925 (Bolsheviks: A narrative history of the origin of communism in Mexico, 1919-25). Taibo has also received the Dashiell Hammett International Award for best police novel on 3 different occasions.
Paco Taibo II is the author of an acclaimed biography of Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, tambien conocido como el Che (Ernesto Guevara, alias Che) and has also co-authored a book with Sub-comandante Marcos called Muertos incomodos (The Restless Dead). He is the author of Con cuatro manos (With four hands) Sombra de la Sombra (The shadow's shadow) and Amorosos fantasmas (Loving Ghosts). In 2007 he published Pancho Villa, a narrative biography, his most recent book on the life of the Mexican revolutionary.
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