Dick Gerdes

Dick Gerdes ([email protected]) is an award-winning translator who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has translated works from the Spanish by important novelists such as Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Ana María Shua, Diamela Eltit, and Gonzalo Celorio, among others.

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...
Night Is Coming On

By Luis Alberto de Cuenca

September 2016
Luis Alberto de Cuenca

Willendorf Venus Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria. © Jorge Royan / commons.wikimedia.org Night is coming on.Pirate flags, family pictures,superhero figuresand the image of Venus de Willendorf...
Urban Reality and Classical Antiquity: A Conversation with Luis Alberto de Cuenca

By Diego Doncel

September 2016
Diego Doncel

Luis Alberto de Cuenca (b. 1950, Madrid) is perhaps the one Spanish poet today who has influenced most of the younger generations of poets. He recently received the National Poetry Award for his late...
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...