Isabel Allende was born in Peru and raised in Chile. She now lives in California. Following a career in journalism and exile in Venezuela, she published her widely acclaimed novel The House of Spirits in 1982, which paved... 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
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
“Our situation is unbearable, stuck between the empire of Octavio Paz and the empire of Pablo Neruda” Los Detectives Salvajes (The Savage Detectives, 1998) is too vast and original to fit into any tag or category easily. It... Read Article
“You hated him because he represented the science which wanted to explain landscapes and love transforming them into definitions.” (p. 217) A 25 year old Charles Darwin meets his romantic adversary, the German-born painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, in... Read Article
Roberto Bolaño was a multi-award winning Chilean novelist and poet (The Savage Detectives, 2666) whose books have been translated into English after his passing in 2003. The Third Reich (El Tercer Reich) was written in 1989 but published... Read Article
