Latin American Literature

Roberto Bolaño’s Tantrums

By Ilan Stavans
February 28, 2022 | Ilan Stavans

“Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies,” Roberto Bolaño, who enjoyed accruing enemies in the pantheon of Latin American letters, writes in the short story “Meeting with Enrique Lihn” (...
I Write with Words That Have Shadow but Don’t Shelter

By Guillermo Sucre
January 6, 2021 | Guillermo Sucre

Photo by Matt Artz / Unsplash I write with words that have shadow but don’t shelter no sooner do I start this page insomnia burns it not the words but what they consume is what reality start...
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...
Mission Rocío: From Quito to Paris and Guadalajara, Saving the Earth One Poem at a Time

February 13, 2020 | Alice-Catherine Carls

Pachamama / Pichincha / Photo by Scipio Rocío Durán-Barba / Photo by Stephen Carls Rocío Durán-Barba is one of the most important voices of Latin American literature today. The author of mo...
Introducing Latin American Literature Today

January 31, 2017 | Daniel Simon

For the past decade, World Literature Today has been proud to collaborate with Beijing Normal University to bring out an annual Chinese edition of the magazine as well as a biannual journal...
A Conversation with Jorge Edwards: Between Fiction and Reality

November 28, 2016 | Jorge Eduardo Benavides, César Ferreira

Jorge Edwards. Photo: Miguel Lucena, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos (Madrid, Spain) Jorge Edwards (b. 1931, Santiago de Chile) has had one of the more extensive careers of Latin American writer...
Mario Vargas Llosa: Word and Fire

May 25, 2016 | Raúl Tola

Mario Vargas Llosa / Courtesy of Expansión To celebrate the eightieth birthday of 2004 Neustadt Prize nominee and 1977 Puterbaugh Fellow Mari...
Literary tributes to Alan Rickman, a computer writing poetry, and more

January 22, 2016 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews We’re sad to report that Mexican Amercian poet Francisco X. Alarcón died of cancer last week. His poetry explored Chicano life in the US. He contributed a poem to WL...
Neustadt finalists, literary maps, and more

May 29, 2015 | Laura Hernandez

News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists were announced tonight! Congrats to Can Xue, Caryl Churchill, Carolyn Forché, Aminatta Forna, Ann-Marie Mac...