(CPV) – A talk with famous Mexican writer and editor, Dr. Alberto Ruy Sánchez, was held this afternoon, May 28^th by Nha Nam culture and communication company in collaboration with the Mexican Embassy in Vietnam at the Trung Nguyen Creation Rendezvous, 36 Dien Bien Phu, Hanoi.

Attending in the talk were guests of honour such as the Mexican Ambassador to Vietnam and translator Tran Tien Cao Dang.

Vietnamese and foreign readers in Hanoi had opportunity to meet Dr. Ruy Sánchez, whose work has been acclaimed by famous international writers such as Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Severo Sarduy, Alberto Manguel and Claude Michel Cluny.

Mexican Ambassador to Vietnam made his speech at the talk (Photo: H.H)

Born in 1951, Ruy-Sánchez received his PhD from the University of Jussieu, Paris, under the directorship of Roland Barthes and has been widely published in scholarly journals.

His novel Mogador, published by City Lights in San Francisco in 1993, was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Mexico. Since 1988 he has been the Chief Editor and founding publisher of Latin America’s leading Arts Magazine, Artes de Mexico.

In February 2000 he was decorated by the French Government as Officer de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has been several times the Thinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Chairman of the Creative Non-Fiction Summer Program in the Banff Centre for the Arts, in Canada.

The Mexican writer who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, Octavio Paz once called Ruy-Sánchez: “the strangest of Mexican writers, a true cosmopolite poet telling stories from a territory wider than just a country because he is the poet from the skin. That is why his language is the touch, the sense that implies all the others.”./.