Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau

Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau

Alvarado-Larroucau portrait, ca 2007. Picture taken at Tucumán.
Born 1964
Tucumán, Argentina
Occupation writer, poet, essayist, professor
Nationality French; Argentine
Literary movement Francophone literature

Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau is a novelist, poet and essayist, born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina in 1964. After he completed his secondary education in the province of Tucumán, he settled in Buenos Aires, where he studied Languages, Philosophy and Law. He further pursued his studies for more than twelve years in Canada, USA and France.

Carlos Alvarado graduated with honors in Comparative literature and French literature at the University of Montreal, Canada, having obtained a fellowship from the Ministry of Education of Quebec. Moreover, he got a diploma with honors from Florida International University, Miami, United States and the Sorbonne University, France. He lectures at several universities and colleges in Argentina and publishes on literature in specialized media. He was visiting professor at other worldwide universities. He is a member of Golden Key International Honour Society, International PEN, PEN of Algeria, of the "Gens de Lettres de Paris" and other recognized academic, literature, cultural and social institutions.

In the year 2008 he was specially invited to Algeria by the Ministry of Culture to present a lecture on: Le silence au cœur d'un système de représentation purement algérien (Silence at the heart of a purely Algerian representation system), a presentation which opened the conference general session during the Algiers First International Meeting on Literary Translation, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Algeria in collaboration with the Higher Arab Institute for Translation of Algiers, International PEN and PEN of Algeria.

In 2009, in Buenos Aires, he was a key speaker with a lecture on Moroccan literature and Borges's literature at “Borges - France” Colloquium. IV International Comparative Literature Symposium organized by the Universidad Católica Argentina. Meetings were chaired by Prof. Pierre Brunel of the Sorbonne, and sponsored by the French embassy in Argentina and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. Alvarado-Larroucau is a specialist in Francophone literature of Argentine; Francophone literature of the Maghreb and Mashrek; and Literature of francophone Africa. He has published in Spanish and French, he is considered a Argentinean Francophone author.

During 2010, he participated in the FRENCH HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROGRAM FHLP, a program designed to support and enrich the teaching and learning of French language, literature, and culture for students of Francophone background. FHLP is a Program of the French American Cultural Exchange FACE, with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York and the French Embassy in the U.S. At present he translates the French poetry of Etel Adnan, and he prepares a special work on biblical heroines with Donato Grima, contemporary artist from Tucumán.

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About his poetry, Professor Adrian Baró (from Argentina), stated:

It would be impossible not to find in the poetry of Alvarado, some echoes some that are unique to the French literature he studies. Like other French-speaking writers, he has exchanged ideas intimately with the great Gallic poets like Saint-John Perse, Max Jacob and Mallarmé; and absorbed a certain amount of unavoidable melancholy reading Proust. In Alvarado work there is a certain lyricism inherited from romanticism "that never stops". […] In his work there is an aspiration to achieve a powerful synthesis, evoking an inside atmosphere from the mere observation of the simple things in the manner of Rilke, and this is visible in several of his poems such as in "what trivial: the perfect, the fleeting: the eternal ". The poet says to all "Tucumán", and so is his word, his utterance is loaded with nuances of his country, with some way to express itself to the whole region of northwest Argentina. Doubtless the poet knows the works of poets tucumanos Pablo Rojas Paz, Omar Estrella and Ariadna Chaves, among others. His verse, like that of the poets of his land, is carefree adjectives as austere as accurate.

Published in Diario Central de Poesía, San Isidro, Buenos Aires, December 2007.

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