According the writer G.K. Chesterton, “the man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world”, a point which ought to be remembered throughout A Perfect Cemetery, the fourth collection of short stories from Federico... Read Article
María José Ferrada, who has historically written children’s novels, published Kramp, her first novel aimed at adults, in her native Spanish in 2017. It is published in English as How to Order the Universe, translated by Elizabeth Bryer.... Read Article
Carolina de Robertis was a winner of the Stonewall Book Award, the Reading Women Award, a Lambda Literary Award and was a Kirkus Prize finalist for her novel Cantoras. She has translated Latin American and Spanish literature into... Read Article
Edinburgh-based Charco Press has been making waves, snapping up the latest literary talent from Latin America, and Chilean author Andrea Jeftanovic’s debut novel Theatre of War is no exception to this trend. Set in an unnamed South American... Read Article
Andrés Neuman is an internationally acclaimed Argentinian writer of novels, short stories and poetry. Fracture is his sixth novel and the third one to be translated into English by the incredibly talented Nick Caistor and Lorenza García. Fracture... Read Article
An online launch event for The Past is an Imperfect Tense, hosted by Latin America Bureau and supported by Sounds and Colours, will be held online on 29th October 2020. “What did we know about adoption? Nothing, absolutely... Read Article
On November 15, 2012, the Argentinean parliament passed a new law inscribing femicidios (femicides) into the penal code, deeming them to be aggravated homicides which could, given certain conditions, punish the perpetrator with life in prison. Selva Almada’s... Read Article
[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
[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
The International Booker-prize nominated Mexican writer paints a picture of a dark and violent modern-day Veracruz by layering individual experiences in her collection of non-fiction narratives, Aquí no es Miami [This Is Not Miami] (2018), and her new... Read Article
During normal summers, the Edinburgh International Book Festival hosts nearly 1,000 writers, artists, philosophers, and more for three bustling weeks of cultural events. With summer 2020 categorically not being a normal summer, the festival has had to take... Read Article
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
