Mario Bellatin: Salón de belleza (Beauty Salon)/Poeta ciego [Blind Poet]
< The latest addition to my website are two stories by Mario Bellatin. The first is a new translation of Salón de belleza (Beauty Salon) and the second an untranslated…
< The latest addition to my website are two stories by Mario Bellatin. The first is a new translation of Salón de belleza (Beauty Salon) and the second an untranslated…
The latest addition to my website is Pola Oloixarac's Mona (Mona). Our heroine/narrator is Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a Peruvian writer. Her first novel was well received and helped get her onto…
The latest addition to my website is Alonso Cueto's La viajera del viento (The Wind Traveller). This is about the Peruvian war against Shining Path guerrillas and the consequences of…
The latest addition to my website is Gustavo Faverón Patriau's Vivir abajo [Living in the Basement]. This novel, already declared a key novel of twenty-first century Latin American literature by…
The latest addition to my website is Mario Vargas Llosa's Tiempos recios [Hard Times]. The novel deals with the overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz in 1954,…
The latest addition to my website is José María Arguedas'Todas las sangres [All the Bloodlines]. This is José María Arguedas' longest book and goes into great detail about a story…
The latest addition to my website is José María Arguedas's Los ríos profundos (Deep Waters). This novel, praised by Mario Vargas Llosa as one of the great Peruvian novels, is…
The latest addition to my website is Miguel Ildefonso's Hotel Lima [Hotel Lima]. Our hero/narrator is called Dante and we follow him in his journey underground, though his underground is…
The latest addition to my website is Alfredo Bryce Echenique's Las obras infames de Pancho Marambio [The Infamous Works of Pancho Marambio]. Bienvenido Salvador Buenaventura is a fifty-four year old…
Peruvian novelist Miguel Gutiérrez died yesterday, shortly before his seventy-sixth birthday. I can find no reports in English but it has been in announced in Spanish here and here. He…