In LALT No. 24, we highlight Colombian writer Pilar Quintana, winner of the 2021 Alfaguara Prize, along with a dossier on the poetry and prose of Cristina Peri Rossi, winner of the 2021 Cervantes Prize. We also share interviews with Michelle Roche Rodríguez and Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Mapuche and Macuxi voices in our Indigenous Literature section, fiction by Brazilian writer Alex Sens, nonfiction by Ricardo Montiel, exclusive previews of upcoming books in translation by Raúl Gómez Jattin and Gabriela Ponce, a brand-new set of book reviews, and much more.
This dossier consists of an interview and two essays. In the interview, Quintana identifies desire and animality as the great axes of her narrative. She has explored them through two main themes—sex and motherhood—and delved into the intensity, violence, and irrationality they enclose and unleash.
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