In "A Jangada de Pedra" (The Stone Raft) the Portuguese writer José Saramago imagines Iberia literally breaking off from the rest of Europe.Read More
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Santiago Gamboa's "Plegarias nocturnas" has Colombia and its political and social reality in the center of the plot.Read More
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Random House reported Wednesday that Ildefonso Falcones will publish a new historical novel during the first quarter of 2013, the novel his to be published in Castilian by Grijalbo and Catalan by...
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-ildefonso-falcones-novel.html
More than eleven thousand photographs remained stored in the family closet of Manuel Ramos, one of the pioneers of Mexican photojournalism. It took almost half a century for the Ramos files to be...
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/early-mexican-photojournalism-in-mexico.html
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira talks about the creation of his work, "Gourd," that bursts from a wall in MOCA's newly completed uptown home. Read More
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Chilean novelist Isabel Allende receives the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award from Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik.Read More
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Repression, discipline and religion are the cornerstones of "Las poseídas", the audacious new novel from Betina Gonzalez.Read More
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When acclaimed writers, poets and journalists from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain get together for a literary festival, says Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres, the conversation is n...
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The novel "Dias de Lava" (Days of Lava) by Mexican writer Daniel Krauze was honored in the inaugural edition of the Nuevas Letras Prize, awarded by the Planeta publishing corporation and the Sanb...
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/mexican-novelist-daniel-krauze-wins.html
The Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros died Saturday at age 69. Cisneros, also a journalist, screenwriter and professor, was awarded the Pablo Neruda Poetry Ibero-American award in 2010.He was ...
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Mexican writer Guillermo Fadanelli won last Thursday the Premio Grijalbo de Novela 2012 for his novel "Las mujeres muertas" (The dead women).Read More
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The provocative Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo ensures that overpopulation is the great tragedy of humanity and that politics is a gangster system...Read More
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/09/sex-is-dirty-and-innocent-reproduction.html
Director Walter Salles talks to Margaret Pomeranz about jazz, bebop and On the Road, his new movie inspired by the life of writer Jack Kerouac.Read More
The geek hero who gave us The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao returns with a new collection of linked stories, This Is How You Lose Her. Read More
Jeff Vandermeer reviews Carlos Fuentes lastest novel "Vlad".When Carlos Fuentes died in May at age 83, he left behind an impressive legacy and an eclectic body of work. Novels like the sprawling,...
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/carlos-fuentes-vlad_6.html
An interview with Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramirez, winner of the Premio Iberoamericano de Letras "José Donoso" in 2011, and the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, where he talks about his career and proj...
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/nicaraguan-writer-sergio-ramirez-turns.html
Yvonne Zipp reviews Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Prisoner of Heaven""The Prisoner of Heaven" is Zafon's third novel set around Sempere & Sons bookstore and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a fabl...
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Mario López-Goicoechea writes about Cuban author Virgilio PiñeraVirgilio Domingo Piñera Llera was born in Cárdenas, western Cuba, on 4 August 1912 – 100 years ago tomorrow. Nothing in his n...
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With the luxuriant prose that marks his style, Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa displays here a nostalgic reflection of the supposed global loss of a "high culture" for minorities.
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-past-was-better.html
There are two basic ways to find time to read (and this, of course, applies to all other activities). On the one hand, you can assign a fixed period of time to read this, such as a half hour just...
"Olha que coisa mais linda/ Mais cheia de graça/ É ela menina/ Que vem e que passa". It was a club in Rio de Janeiro, in August 2, 1962, that these words were first heard. It's been 50 years an...
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/girl-from-ipanema-is-50-years-old.html
Jose Saramago Foundation announced the death of the water dog Camões, which inspired the writer to imagine the faithful ally of the potter protagonist of his novel "The Cave".
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/camoes-dog-that-inspired-jose-saramago.html
Peruvian writer Jaime Bayly concludes his popular trilogy "Morirás mañana" (You will die tomorrow) with "Escupirán sobre mi tumba" (They will spit on my grave), a novel full of irony and grote...
http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/jaime-bayly-concludes-his-trilogy.html
Stephen Akey writes about the poetry of Antonio MachadoBig themes: God, belief, love, death, solitude, time, Spain. But Machado wrote about small things as well, and my favorite poem of his conce...
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