In September, the series named LITERARY WEDNESDAYS in its 3^rd Season, with the support of the Florida Delegation of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), Baquiana Literary Magazine and the Spanish Cultural Center of Miami (CCEMIAMI), has as special guest the distinguished Chilean academic, poet, writer, novelist and playwright Gustavo Gac-Artigas to present his bilingual poetry book I CONFESS THAT I WRITE.

Every second Wednesday of the month, the series LITERARY WEDNESDAYS invites different authors, in order to continue with the contribution of the cultural development of the community and the promotion of the language and literature in Spanish in the United States of America. The programs are coordinated and conducted by Maricel Mayor Marsán, president of the Florida Delegation of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) and director of Baquiana Literary Magazine.

The event will be recorded by the digital platform ZOOM and it will be located on a permanent basis to the public at the BAQUIANA TV Channel of YouTube as soon as:

Date: Wednesday, September 11 of 2024. Available from 2:00 p.m.

The event will be conducted in SPANISH.

The link will be available at the main pages of the following websites:

www.baquiana.com | [email protected]

Information about the book:

Publishing house:

Hebel Ediciones & Cross Cultural-Communications, 2024, 210 pp.

ISBN: 978-0893047313.

Translation: Andrea G. Labinger & Priscilla Gac-Artigas

Prologue: Juan Antonio Massone

I Confess That I Write, by Gustavo Gac-Artigas, is “the logbook of a navigator of words, silence, and life. The paths, shortcuts, and inns along this journey are marked by a stark humanity (often suffering and punished) present in each text. In these verses, a human being emerges who questions our complacent goodness, who reproaches us for our complicit daily silence in the face of inhumanity. But it is not just a complaint; rather, it is an invitation for our journey to be transformed into wonder, words, and protest” (Reynaldo Lacámara).

“A summa of its author’s poetics, I Confess That I Write offers us his love for words, his trust in the liberating power of the verb, his generous decision to wield it as a key to change the world, his unconditional dedication to those who suffer, his passion for pursuing the luminous traces of truth in our tormented world” (Graciela Tomassini).

Information about the guest author:

GUSTAVO GAC-ARTIGAS

Born in Chile, he is an academic, poet, novelist, writer and playwright. He is a member of the organization PEN Chile, a corresponding member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language / Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), and an academic of the Tomitana Academy of Constanta, Romania. He is a regular contributor of opinion articles for Le Monde Diplomatique (Chilean edition), Impacto Latino (New York), El Desconcierto (Chile), Todo Literatura (Spain) and Letralia (Venezuela). His poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies in the United States, France and Latin America and partially translated into English, French and Romanian. As a poet, he has participated in International Festivals and poetry readings in the United States, México, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, India, Costa Rica, Holland, France and Romania, and several others. He has received the following awards: XIII World Poetry Festival Mihai Eminescu 2024; Cultural Ambassador of the European Foundation Mihai Eminescu and the International Mihai Eminescu Academy; Honored Poet of the 17th Hispanic/Latino Book Fair of Queens 2023; finalist, International Book Award 2023: category “contemporary poetry”, for the collection hombre de América / man of the Americas, Nueva York Poetry Press 2022, translated by A. G. Labinger and P. Gac-Artigas; finalist of the International Latino Book Award 2018: category “best fiction book in translation from Spanish to English” for And All of Us Were Actors, A Century of Light and Shadow (2016), translated by A. G. Labinger; Poetry Park Award (Rotterdam, 1989) for the book “Dr. Zamenhofstraat”. He has published numerous books in poetry and prose all along his trajectory as author. Among his most recent poetry books are: Si lo hubiera sabido… (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2024) y la edición bilingüe Confieso que escribo/ I confess that I write (Hebel Ediciones & Cross-Cultural Communications, 2024).