08 Feb 11
La escritora mexicana Elena Poniatowska ha ganado hoy en Barcelona el premio Biblioteca Breve, dotado con 30.000 euros, con la novela "Leonora", una evocación de la vida de la pintora Leonora Carrington, la última artista surrealista viva.
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07 Dec 10
Carlos Sorin’s book is set on the last day in the life of Antonio, an 80-year-old writer awaiting the visit of his estranged son on his hacienda in northern Patagonia.
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01 Nov 10
Mastetta is one of the most outstanding writers of new feminist Mexican literature. ‘Arráncame la vida’ is set in the town of Puebla
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29 Oct 10
This year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa, marking a growing trend towards global appreciation for Latin American culture. Vargas Llosa received the award "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". The Peruvian writer is one of a handful of contemporary Latin American novelists who have gained international recognition
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14 Oct 10
Fernando, a writer, returns to Medellin after an absence of thirty years. He meets Alexis, sixteen years old, a male prostitute and a hitman
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10 Jun 10
A few weeks ago, the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco received the Cervantes Prize, one of the top international literary prizes and the most important of the Spanish speaking world. Yet, if one is to look for English language translations of his work one would only be able to find, in few libraries, U.S. translations of his poetry and short fiction dating back to the late 1960s to the 1980s.
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10 Jun 10
Jorge Volpi is a Mexican author (1968), who recently won the Debate-Casa de America non-fiction prize for El insomnio de Bolívar, a critique of the reduction of Latin America to an exotic image and an analysis of the contemporary transformations of the region.
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