Best Albums of 2020
What a year!? It’s certainly been like no other. Well… except for the amount of music that’s been released, which appears to be as abundant as usual, if not more so. While some releases have certainly been delayed... Read Article
‘I don’t want the reader be able to escape this book unharmed’: María Fernanda Ampuero on ‘Cockfight’
[Lee en español aquí] Award-winning Ecuadorian writer, María Fernanda Ampuero, released her first collection of short stories last month with Feminist Press. Not for the faint-hearted, Cockflight is a gory, gruesome collection of nightmares and fairytales that coldly... Read Article
‘Yo quiero que el lector no pueda salir de este libro indemne’: María Fernanda Ampuero sobre ‘Pelea de Gallos’
[Click here for English] Los cuentos de la colección reciente de María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de Gallos, son contundentes, horribles y muy diferentes a lo que espera el mundo angloparlante de la literatura latinoamericana. En sus 13 relatos,... Read Article
Hay Festival in Mexico: Free Online Events with Writers, Artists and Journalists
The Hay Festivals are a series of literature and art festivals held annually around the world, bringing writers and readers together to exchange stories and ideas. This year, the fifth annual Hay Festival Querétaro, held in Queretaro, Mexico,... Read Article
An Inventory of My Life: PowerPaola on ‘Virus Tropical’ and Turning a Graphic Novel into a Film
[Lee en español aquí] PowerPaola is a Quito-born-Cali-raised artist, cartoonist, and writer. Her hit autobiographical graphic novel, Virus Tropical (2011), was made into an animated film in 2017. The film, directed by Santiago Caicedo, is an original, visually-arresting... Read Article
Un inventario de mi vida: PowerPaola sobre la adaptación cinematográfica de su novela gráfica Virus Tropical
[Click here for English] PowerPaola es una artista, historietista, y escritora ecuato-colombiana. Su autobiografía gráfica, Virus Tropical (2011), se convirtió en una película animada dirigida por Santiago Caicedo en 2017. Desde entonces, esta película original y visualmente impresionante... Read Article
María Fernanda Ampuero Targets Family Violence in ‘Cockfight’
Award-winning author María Fernanda Ampuero, leader of a new wave of Ecuadorian writers according to The New York Times en Español, bites again with her first collection of short stories, Cockfight. Not for the faint-hearted, this is a... Read Article
Five Latin American Books to Read for Women in Translation Month
The month of August is Women in Translation Month: an initiative created in 2014 by book blogger Meytal Radzinski to celebrate translated fiction written by women. Translated literature accounted for 5.63% of literature published in English in 2019,... Read Article
REVIEW Virus Tropical
Virus Tropical (2018, dir. Santiago Caicedo) is a beautifully-animated coming-of-age film based on Ecuadorian-Colombian artist Power Paola’s 2011 autobiographical graphic novel by the same name. We’ve long been fans of Power Paola’s art at Sounds and Colours (she... Read Article
REVIEW Various Artists – Place: Ecuador
Place: Ecuador is earthy, alien, and reveals the current dystopia. The 19-track compilation is made up of music from Ecuadorian producers only, where musical experimentation, futurist beats and cultural heritage are fused. An upbeat album for sure. Coincidentally,... Read Article
REVIEW Cuñao – Rayuela
Cuñao’s Latin-folk sound is as unique as they are, a band that came together for a birthday celebration in 2014 and have worked together ever since, despite their diverse musical backgrounds. Fast-forward six years and their sound remains... Read Article
Indigenous Race Into Ecuador’s Amazon to Escape Coronavirus
This story originally appeared in aljazeera.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Quito, Ecuador – Nemonte Nenquimo, an Indigenous Waorani leader from Ecuador’s... Read Article