Pedro Lastra
Author
1932 –
Who is Pedro Lastra?
Pedro Lastra is a Chilean poet and essayist.
Lastra is a graduate of the University of Chile. Pedro Lastra first came to the U.S. as a visiting professor at SUNY Buffalo in the sixties after judging a short story competition in Cuba as part of his growing resume. There he would meet Julio Rodríguez-Puértolas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, emeritus, and Alan Francis, retired DOE/NYC, who later earned his doctorate from Harvard, but who always mentions Pedro as an important influence in his career as Hispanist and jazz musician. They both were on the faculty of SUNY Stony Brook during the seventies and performed jazz and poetry there. From 1966-73, he was the literary advisor to the University Press and director of the Letras de América collection. In 1972, he moved to the United States and taught at Stony Brook University in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature. In 1994, he became an emeritus professor there.
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- Born
- Mar 3, 1932
- Nationality
- Chile
- Education
- University of Chile
- Lived in
- Quillota
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on July 23, 2013
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