Domnita Dumitrescu Meets with Mario Vargas Llosa

Domnita Dumitrescu, the Book/Media Review Editor ofHispania, participated in the XIV Congress of the Association of the Academies of the Spanish Language, held in Panama City, November 20–25. Dumitrescu was part of the delegation of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, and she presented the paper entitled "Reflexiones sobre el español en Estados Unidos, a la luz del censo de 2010.” She had the opportunity to converse, among other personalities, with Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, who received the Gold Medal of the Association at this conference. She told him about the upcoming review of his most recent novel, which will appear in the December issue of Hispania, and about the fact that the journal’s Managing Editor, David P. Wiseman, is an expert in his work.