Eduardo Lago (born 16 June 1954) is a Spanish novelist, translator, and literary critic, born in

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and currently living in

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, 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 James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the Modernism, modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important ...

’s novel, '' Ulysses''. In 2006, he won the

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, 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 ''

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''. He returned to teaching Spanish,

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, and European Literature at

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in 2011, after leaving in 2005 for the position of Director of the

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in New York. He is a founding member of the Order of Finnegans, which takes its name from a pub in

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, Ireland, although there are those who believe it also comes from James Joyce’s last novel, ''Finnegans Wake''. The knights of the Order of Finnegans must venerate James Joyce’s novel ''Ulysses'' and, if possible, attend

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each year in

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on the sixteenth of June. This is a long day that culminates, at dusk, at the

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(where the novel begins) with participants reading sections from ''Ulysses'' and then walking to Finnegans pub in the neighbouring village of Dalkey. The other four founding members are Enrique Vila-Matas, Jordi Soler,

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and Malcolm Otero Barral.

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Eduardo Lago recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on Mar. 14, 2015
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lago, Eduardo 1954 births Living people Writers from Madrid Sarah Lawrence College faculty Spanish novelists Spanish male novelists Spanish translators English–Spanish translators