Eduardo Lago facts for kids

Eduardo Lago is a Spanish writer, translator, and literary critic. He was born in Madrid, Spain, on June 16, 1954. Today, he lives in Manhattan, New York, in the United States.

Eduardo Lago has won important awards for his work. In 2002, he received the Bartolomé March Award. This award recognized his excellent writing about different Spanish translations of a famous book called Ulysses by James Joyce. Later, in 2006, he won the Premio Nadal. This is Spain's oldest and most respected award for writers. He won it for his first novel, which is titled Llámame Brooklyn (meaning Call Me Brooklyn).

For many years, Eduardo Lago interviewed writers from North America. These interviews were published in a special section called Babelia in the Spanish newspaper El País. He also taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers. He left teaching in 2005 to become the Director of the Cervantes Institute in New York. This institute helps spread Spanish language and culture. He returned to teaching Spanish, Spanish literature, and European Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in 2011.

The Order of Finnegans

Eduardo Lago is one of the people who started a special group called the Order of Finnegans. This group is named after a pub in Dalkey, Ireland. Some people also think the name comes from James Joyce’s last novel, Finnegans Wake.

The members of the Order of Finnegans really admire James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. They try to go to an event called Bloomsday every year. Bloomsday happens in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16th. This is a long day of celebrations that ends in the evening at the Martello tower in Sandycove. This tower is where the novel Ulysses begins. People read parts of Ulysses there. After that, they walk to Finnegans pub in the nearby village of Dalkey.

The other four people who helped start the Order of Finnegans are Enrique Vila-Matas, Jordi Soler, Antonio Soler, and Malcolm Otero Barral.

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In Spanish: Eduardo Lago para niños