Chile

Emancipatory Queerness in the Work of Roberto Bolaño

By Erika Almenara
February 1, 2022 | Erika Almenara

Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon] (1846–52), daguerreotype, 2019.47, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel / Courtesy of the...
WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

July 8, 2020 | Pía Barros

Photo by hdur / Flickr Prohibitions to Cristina Peri Rossi, for the structure It’s difficult sometimes, but we have learned. We make acts of contrition each night wi...
Ferns

June 8, 2020 | Catalina Infante Beovic

Photo: Quentin Lagache / Unsplash In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life und...
World Literature Today Announces 2020 Student Translation Prize Winners

May 18, 2020 | The Editors of WLT

From left to right, prose winner Jamie Lauer and writer Pía Barros, poetry winner Russell Karrick, poet Lucía Estrada. Jamie Lauer and Russell Karrick recently were named as the recipients of...
Translation at the Movies: A Conversation with Antonio Skármeta

September 16, 2014 | Arthur Dixon

Photo: Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle via Wikimedia Commons Many works of Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta have formed the foundations of further artistic endeavors, including and beyond their...
Four Female Poets You Should Know

April 22, 2013 | Melissa Weiss

Retrato de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. por Miguel Cabrea, 1750. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–95) was born in San Miguel Nepantla, Tepetlixpa, Mex...