Franco Laguna Correa
Francisco Laguna Correa | |
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| Born | September 20, 1982 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Writer, college professor, social ethnographer |
| Alma mater | UNAM and Portland State University (B.A.) Autonomous University of Madrid (MA) UNC-Chapel Hill (PhD) University of Pittsburgh (MFA) |
| Genre | Literary fiction, non-fiction, Hybrid genres Flash fictions |
| Literary movement | Cosmolatinx, Paroxista |
| Notable works | Wild North, Finales felices, Crush Me |
Francisco Laguna Correa (also known as "Franco Laguna Correa") is a writer, ethnographer, and college professor.[1][2][3][4][5] He was awarded in 2012 the National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), an institution based in New York City.[4][6][7] In 2013, he received the International Poetry Prize of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes.[8] In 2016, Laguna Correa was one of the recipients of The Fuerza Award, a social recognition for his intellectual activism in the Pittsburgh area granted by The City of Pittsburgh, the collective Café con Leche, and The Latin American Cultural Union (LACU).[9][10] The Chicago Review of Books recommended his book Crush Me (a broken novel) for the 2017 National Poetry Month.[11] His novel Wild North was included in the list of best Mexican fiction of 2017 selected by author Antonio Ortuño and published in the daily newspaper El Informador.[12] He has been invited to deliver talks about his research at various institutions, including Emory University, the University of California, Texas State University, and Duke University.[1]
Education & Teaching
He graduated from the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in 2001 after being forced to interrupt his studies due to the 1999 UNAM strike. He began his university studies at The School of Philosophy and Letters and The School of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which is often cited as the most prestigious university of the Spanish-speaking world.[13][14][15][16][17] He completed his undergraduate education at Portland State University, where he received a double BA in Liberal Studies and Literature. In addition, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and two master's degrees, one in Immigration and another in Hispanic Philosophy, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid.[18] He was the recipient in 2014 of the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2016 he received a doctoral degree in Cultural and Literary Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[4] In early 2019, he was forced to quit his appointment as assistant professor at the University of Denver due to a Human Rights issue.[19]
Human Rights Issue
In November 2018, a group of people broke into the apartment of professor Laguna Correa, in Denver, while he was not there and broke the window of a neighbor. The Denver Police arrested Laguna Correa without holding any evidence and charged him with a criminal mischief. He was incarcerated in the Denver County Jail and in Cook County Jail, in Chicago. The apartment complex, Premier Lofts, destroyed video evidence that incriminated the management and the charge was not removed from professor Laguna Correa's record, thus damaging his reputation and human integrity.
Awards
(2012) National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (New York City)
(2013) International Poetry Prize of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
(2016) The Fuerza Award (Pittsburgh)
(2018) Latino of the Year of the Triad (North Carolina)
Bibliography
- (2020) The Invisible Militia, [2]
- (2020) The Book Where You Surrender, [3]
- (2020) Essays on Pop Culture, Sonic Modernity, The Anthropocene, and Artificial Intelligence, [4]
- (2020) Requiem for The Unhappy, [5]
- (2020) Acedia, [6]
- (2020) Poesía Temprana (2005-2012), [7]
- (2020) Portable Museum: Lighter Than Air (a memoir), [8]
- (2020) Historia de un hombre devastado por el siglo XX, [9]
- (2020) La vida después del presente: La irrupción de la Inteligencia Artificial en la vida cotidiana, [10]
- (2020) (Broken Novel), [11]
- (2020) Distorsiones y encubrimientos: Crítica al campo intelectual en México, [12]
- (2020) Fuera de México (Ensayos), [13]
- (2020) El intelectual en su tiempo: Un acercamiento cognitivo al pensamiento político, histórico e intelectual de Lucas Alamán, [14]
- (2020) Esclavitud en Tabasco durante el Porfiriato, [15]
- (2020) Memoria de una alarma contra incendios, [16]
- (2020) Utopía poética, impotencia amorosa e imaginación temporal en María Luisa Bombal, Pablo Neruda y Mario Benedetti, [17]
- (2018) Ortodoxa (contra-manual), [18]
- (2017) Crush Me (a broken novel), https://chireviewofbooks.com/2017/04/19/add-these-books/
- (2016) Wild North, [19]
- (2014) Resquebrajadura (deforme y mutilado, este relato...), Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615984061
- (2012) Finales felices, North American Academy of the Spanish Language, New York, ISBN 978-0-9850961-4-4
- (2011) Crítica literaria y otros cuentos, Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615520669
External links
Interview (Detrás de Página/Suburbano) https://suburbano.net/detrasdepagina-francisco-laguna-correa/
Interview (UNC Global Institute) http://global.unc.edu/news/global-heels-francisco-laguna-correa-mexico/
Interview (University of Pittsburgh) http://pittnewsprofiles.com/silhouettes-2016/francisco-laguna-correa/
Interview (Culturamas) http://www.culturamas.es/blog/2013/12/01/francisco-laguna-correa/
Reading of Crush Me: Ría Brava (a broken novel) at Duke University (Social Justice & Cultural Self-Determination in Latin America and the Caribbean Conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI3hIv-_4mQ
References
- ^ a b High Point University. "Francisco Laguna Correa".
- ^ E-International Relations. "Author Profile".
- ^ Good Docs. "Lupe Under the Sun".
- ^ a b c Website of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. "Francisco Laguna Correa gana segundo certamen literario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española". Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ^ Laguna-Correa, Francisco (2011). Crítica literaria y otros cuentos. USA: Editorial Paroxismo. p. 98. ISBN 978-0615520667.
- ^ "Blog de Manuel Garrido Palacios" (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ^ Website of the newspaper El Universal. "Francisco Laguna Correa gana premio de la ANLE" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ Website of the newspaper La Jornada-Aguscalientes http://www.lja.mx/2013/09/inauguran-el-tercer-festival-de-las-artes-de-la-uaa/. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "The 2016 Fuerza Awards".
- ^ Radical Narratives. "Crush Me by f.l. Crank".
- ^ Chicago Review of Books. "Read these 25 books for National Poetry Month".
- ^ El Informador. "Algunos libros de 2017".
- ^ "¡Orgullo nacional! UNAM, entre las mejores universidades del mundo". 9 March 2017.
- ^ "QS Latin American University Rankings 2018". 12 October 2017.
- ^ "La UNAM en numeros". Retrieved August 22, 2012.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "UNAM la segunda más reconocida de AL en ranking mundial". 20 February 2017.
- ^ Website of the El Cuento en Red, Revista Electrónica de Estudios sobre la Ficción Breve. "Interview with Francisco Laguna Correa (in Spanish)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
- ^ Website of DU. "Francisco Laguna profile".