Trouble Lands: Stories of Mexico & Cuba, As Translated by Langston Hughes, Edited and introduced by Ricardo Wilson

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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟒, 𝟓:𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐦
𝐌𝐜𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝟑𝟔𝟓𝟎 𝐌𝐜𝐓𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐡

We are thrilled to be hosting the book launch of 𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨: 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙪𝙗𝙖 (Princeton UP, 2026), edited and introduced by 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧

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After reading Tajimara | literatur.review There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around..

After reading Tajimara: There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around – an essay by Rodolfo Lara Mendoza...
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(Available in Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish)
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Excellent essay by Victor Meadowcroft
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Mario Vargas Llosa (center, during unsuccessful campaign for the presidency of Peru), Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist #obitpix #mariovargasllosa #novelist #essayist #latinamericanliterature #boomgeneration #artofinstagram #penandink #drawing #illustration #portraitdrawing

Farewell to a giant in Latin American literature. The excellent Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. #rip #mariovargasllosa #latinamericanliterature #thievingmagpie #literarymischief

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025).
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a leading voice in the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and ‘70s.
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The age of pleasure | literatur.review Childhood memories of the coast and a time of imperceptible pleasure..

The age of pleasure: Childhood memories of the coast and a time of imperceptible pleasure – An essay by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
(Available in Arabic, German, English, French and in the Spanish original)
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A researcher on #LatinAmericanLiterature was looking for a text published by #JulioCortazar in the magazine Life en español back in 1969! / Entre los tesoros de @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social encontramos este texto que buscaba uno de nuestros profes searchworks.stanford.edu/view/367418.

We publish Latin American writers in translation at Aliform, as well as specialized Spanish/Engish dictionaries. Check out some of our titles at aliformpublishing.com.

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If you like literature in translation, see our titles aliformpublishing.com.

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If you like literature in translation, check out our titles at aliformpublishing.com. You might also look on Youtube at our series on literary transltion, Translation: Naming and Necessity.

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Contact us for wholesale prices on our Latin American literature in translation (we have 4 titles translated by Gregory Rabassa). aliformpublishing@gmail.com aliformpublishing.com

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In many ways the translated text is its own animal. Look at some of these works by Latin American writers in translation, available at aliformpublishing.com.

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"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does." - Jorge Luis Borges

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Organización: Susanne Hartwig / Malena Pastoriza Cátedra de Literaturas y Culturas Románicas Universidad de Passau

The CfP is now open for the International Symposium "Images and Voices of #Disability and #Illness in #LatinAmericanLiterature", to be held on 4 and 5 December 2025, in virtual format.

✒️Proposals are welcome in English and Spanish.
Thanks for spreading!

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A Sunny Place for Shady People – Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell) I loved Mariana Enriquez’s Things We Lost in the Fire when I read it in 2018 and I’m glad I wrote a review because while I recall the impression it made on me, I’ve pretty much forgotten the …

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez

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Today is a good day to read a book. Just like yesterday, just like tomorrow.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Book #5:

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