We can only approach Ricardo Piglia with difficulty, with the timidity and contemplative distance imposed by an almost excessive sense of veneration.

I maintain very vividly the memory of the first trip a little more than a year after the war ended, passing from Rome, where I was living with my parents and my four siblings, to Naples, where my gran...

But isn’t it true that the subject is always constructed, that there’s something outside that menaces it, that the subject is taking refuge through writing, making its own story?

In Fall of 2016, Mexican author Nadia Villafuerte visited the University of Oklahoma to share her work with students as part of a grant from the OU Humanities Forum. In this exclusive video interview,...

"At night we hear songs, stories, and prophecies around the fire breathing the aroma of bread baked by my grandma, my mother or Auntie María, while my father and my grandpa Lonko (chief of the communi...

In May 2016, on the occasion of an invitation from Miami’s Centro Cultural Español to present my novel Casa chilena (Random House, 2015), I had the opportunity to reunite with the Cuban poet Jo...

To write a book is to pawn a part of your brief life, to lend your body, to give it up so it can be occupied by other voices. We tend to prefer certain subjects, believing that their continuity depend...

… I’ve always associated freedom with essays. Essays are a way for me to explore, to try things out, to create without restrictions or even expectations (an essay is by definition unfinished, imperfec...

A complex author, or at the very least difficult to classify, Carlos Cociña (Concepción, Chile, 1950) presents his work from the mythical Universidad de Concepción, where Gonzalo Rojas generated encou...

"There is always an explanation, of course, but when you’re writing you never think on that level of detail. It’s an experience of understanding, and it’s very enriching."

From Sevilla, where she is working as a visiting lecturer in the Department of English and North American Literature, Sarah Booker tells us about her latest translation project, Mexican writer Cristin...