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Issue 28.

December,

2023

Our twenty-eighth issue shines a spotlight on two women writers whose work stands out for both its literary boldness and its political heft, tackling questions of place, power, and migration: María Fernanda Ampuero of Ecuador and Giannina Braschi of Puerto Rico, with dossiers curated by Issa Aguilar Jara and Tess O’Dwyer, respectively. We also feature poetry by Roque Dalton, one of the definitive literary figures of Latin America’s twentieth century, plus international writing and indigenous voices in multilingual edition from the pages of World Literature Today, along with exclusive interviews with Javier Calvo, Eduardo Sacheri, and Vera Land, a reflection on Severo Sarduy in translation by Chris Campanioni, and excerpts from new and forthcoming books by Mikeas Sánchez, Carlos Pintado, and Sara Gallardo.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: December 2023

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: María Fernanda Ampuero

The Medusa Daughters of Ampuerismo

By Issa Aguilar Jara

María Fernanda Ampuero: “I don’t feel like a successful writer, I know it’s all glitz”

By Issa Aguilar Jara

To Write Is Also to Name A Life That Has Not Been Named (Where Does María Fernanda Ampuero Write?)

By Natalia Andrea Mera Sandoval

Fear: What Is It Good For? (Or Why We Should All Read María Fernanda Ampuero)

By Rosalía Vázquez Moreno

Dossier: Giannina Braschi

Medician Stars

By Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi’s Genealogy

By Manuel Broncano

Giannina’s Doorknobs

By Sarah Ahmad

Love for Life: Notes on Giannina Braschi and United States of Banana

By Nuria Morgado

ESSAYS

Colonial Dreams: Alonso and Martel with Di Benedetto and Saer

By Julio Ariza

FINALIST ESSAY: A Twofold Exile: Fates of the Lyricist

By Alejandro Gómez Monzón

The Pillars of Álvaro Mutis’s Literary Universe

By Mario Barrero Fajardo

INTERVIEWS

The Other Side of Nightmares: A Conversation with Javier Calvo

By Pablo Concha

“The best part of the book will be found in those pages where the artist is fighting back against adversity”: A Conversation with Vera Land on Páez

By Marcelo Rioseco

The Meaning of Many Deaths: An Interview with Eduardo Sacheri on Nosotros dos en la tormenta

By Juan Camilo Rincón

World Literature from WLT

Putting a Collective Finger on the Pulse: The New Cadre of Latin American Women Writers

By Veronica Esposito

Bookstore Gato Caulle: A Literary Community in the South of Chile

By Michelle Mirabella

A Conversation with Maria Stepanova

By Kevin M. F. Platt & Mark Lipovetsky

Fiction

Secundina Caldón

By Amalialú Posso Figueroa

Beasts

By Arelis Uribe

An Excerpt from We Must Have Been Happy

By Rafaela Lahore

POETRY

Four Poems from Moonstruck

By Blanca Luz Pulido

Loose Dog and other poems

By Hildebrando Pérez Grande

Five Poems from It Hurts to Breathe

By William González Guevara

Nine Poems from Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle

By Roque Dalton

Indigenous Literature

Mother Earth, Womb of Origin, and Language in the Quechua Yanakuna World

By Fredy Chikangana

Two Poems in Quechua

By Fredy Chikangana

Two Poems in Ch’ol

By Miriam Esperanza Hernández Vázquez

Five Poems in Tutunakú

By Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juárez

Brazilian Literature

The Fanatic’s Story

By Leonardo Garzaro

Clandestine Graveyard

By Ana Paula Maia

Translation Previews and New Releases

From How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, translated by Wendy Call and Shook

By Mikeas Sánchez

From January, translated by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy

By Sara Gallardo

From Music for Bamboo Strings, translated by Lawrence Schimel

By Carlos Pintado

ON TRANSLATION

Edith Grossman: Unforgettable Memories 

By Lilit Žekulin Thwaites

Beach Birds: On Sarduy, Broken Forms, and Being Born in Translation

By Chris Campanioni

Seeking Publisher: from No Way Back, translated by Allana Noyes

By Claudia Morales

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: December 2023

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Nadar en el tiempo by Osvaldo Picardo

By Lucas Margarit

El olor de las ruinas by Alejandro Medina Franco

By Néstor Mendoza

Andor by Raquel Abend van Dalen

By Raquel Rivas Rojas

Las desapariciones by Mónica Heinrich V.

By Pablo Concha

Tentación del vértigo (Breves asedios de la condición incierta) by Alejandro Quin

By Gabriel Horowitz

Destino: Vagabunda by Carmen Ollé

By Rossella Di Paolo

Free Radicals by Rosa Beltrán

By María Gómez de León

El sentido de la soledad: Memorias (1961-2001) by Roger Santiváñez

By Cristián Gómez Olivares

And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing by Tilsa Otta

By Natalia Chávez Gomes da Silva

Algo le pasa al tiempo by Rubén Darío Carrero

By Alberto Hernández

Minerva by Keila Vall de la Ville

By Claudia Cavallin

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