Eduardo Lago

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Eduardo Lago (b. Madrid, 1954) is a Spanish novelist, translator, and literary critic, currently living in Manhattan, New York, United States. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism for his critical comparison of three Spanish translations of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses. In 2006, he won the Premio Nadal, Spain's oldest and most prestigious literary award, for his first novel, Llámame Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn). For many years, he interviewed North American writers for the literary supplement Babelia in the Spanish newspaper El País. He currently is the Director of the Cervantes Institute in New York, on leave from teaching Spanish and Spanish literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.