Latin American Books: 2020 Highlights
For me, 2020 was a big year of reading in translation. In a year where COVID-19 made us all stay at home, reading provided me with one way of avoiding my world being reduced to my flat. 2020... Read Article
Latin American Literature
‘Ramifications’ by Daniel Saldaña París: Unfolding Memories of a Damaged Childhood
“The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality…“ Mexican author Daniel Saldaña París’ latest novel Ramifications (translated by Christina McSweeney) is centered around a single act that happens during the... 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
There Are No Normal Places: An Interview with Mexican Writer Juan Pablo Villalobos
Juan Pablo Villalobos, born in 1973 in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently living in Barcelona, is the author of two published books in English. Down the Rabbit Hole, a story told by the son of a Mexican drug baron,... Read Article
Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires 2015
The 41st Buenos Aires International Book Fair took place April 21 to May 11 at La Rural fairground and was opened by renowned playwright Roberto “Tito” Coss. There were 500 exhibitors, 4,000 publishing houses and an estimated 1.3... Read Article
FlipSide, Latin American Arts and Literature Festival: 2015 Programme Announced
Every October the Snape Maltings arts complex in Suffolk, England, transforms itself into a piece of Latin America. FlipSide festival, now in its third year, is known for bringing together a mixture of big names in literature and... Read Article
Fightin’ Words: Chile’s Little-Known Literary War
La Guerilla Literaria begins on the streets of Geneva in 1992, a couple of years after the fall of the Pinochet dictatorship. Pepe de Rokha, exiled grandson of the volatile Chilean vanguard poet Pablo de Rokha, meets a... Read Article
Chilean Writer Isabel Allende: A Personal Touch, A Beloved Author
When it comes to beloved Latin American novelists, Chile’s Isabel Allende is always in the mix. Her first novel, The House of Spirits (1985), put her on the magical realism map in the literary world. “She’ll forever be... Read Article
Writing Across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America
Ángel Rama’s Writing Across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America is a superb piece of work. The Uruguayan Rama is, along with Peru’s Antonio Cornejo Polar and Brazil’s Antonio Candido, one of the leading lights in Latin American... Read Article