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Issue 24.

December,

2022

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.

Cover photo by Carlos Zárrate.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: Festina lente or the Pleasure of Reading

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
Featured Author: Pilar Quintana

Desire Is Instinct: Pilar Quintana in LALT

  • by Ingrid Luna López and Óscar Daniel Campo

Animality and Writing: A Conversation with Pilar Quintana

  • by Ingrid Luna López and Óscar Daniel Campo

From Subversion to Upholding the Status Quo

  • by Leonardo Gil Gómez

The (In)edible Wolf: Infidelity, Rape, and Other Violences in the Stories of Pilar Quintana

  • by Ruth N. Solarte-Hensgen

An Excerpt from The Bitch

  • by Pilar Quintana
Dossier: Cristina Peri Rossi

Cristina Peri Rossi: to Fight and Love in Words

  • by María José Bruña and Néstor Sanguinetti

The Peri Rossi Kaleidoscope

  • by Various Authors

Neither Sappho Nor Cervantes: Cristina Peri Rossi

  • by Rafael Courtoisie

The Abracadabra Stones of Poetry

  • by Gerardo Ciancio

“To split / is always to split in two”: some brief reflections on exile, love, fragmentation, and writing in the work of Cristian Peri Rossi

  • by Virginia Lucas and Natasha Tanna
INTERVIEWS

Michelle Roche Rodríguez: “Bodies that Hunger Can Also Aspire to Freedom”

  • by Claudia Cavallin

The Beat Spirit in Latin America: A Conversation with Laura Rubio León and Federico Barea

  • by Mariano Vespa

Darrel Alejandro Holnes: “I think of my language as the language of my experience”

  • by Arthur Malcolm Dixon
Indigenous Literature

An Excerpt from Cherrufe: The Orb of Fire

  • by Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir

Helplessness

  • by Daniela Catrileo

Makunaima and the Gods who are Siblings

  • by Julie Dorrico
FICTION

The Sleep of Reason

  • by Oswaldo Estrada

Mares and Calves

  • by Julia Rendón Abrahamson

An Excerpt from Stag’s House

  • by Juana Moriel-Payne
POETRY

Five Poems

  • by Cristalina Parra

Letter to a Queen

  • by Santiago Elordi

Three Poems

  • by Santiago Sylvester

Three Poems

  • by Minerva Margarita Villarreal
BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Animal Waiting Room (or 29 portraits of a generic afternoon)

  • by Alex Sens
CHRONICLE

Pulled Up

  • by Ricardo Montiel
ON TRANSLATION

Seeking Publisher: from Rain Comes at Night

  • by Guillermo Severiche

Seeking Publisher: from Fandelli

  • by Guillermo Fadanelli
Translation Previews and New Releases

From Almost Obscene 

  • by Raúl Gómez Jattin

From Blood Red 

  • by Gabriela Ponce
Book Reviews

El sitio del relámpago by Marta Jazmín García

  • by José Ygnacio Ochoa

Austral by Carlos Fonseca

  • by Enrique D. Zattara

Adriatic/Adriático by Gina Saraceni

  • by Raquel Rivas Rojas

Baltasar contra el olvido by Mauricio Koch

  • by Martín Cascante

El orden del Aleph by Gustavo Faverón Patriau

  • by Margarita Saona

Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver

  • by César Ferreira


Treinta kilómetros a la medianoche by Gustavo Rodríguez

  • by Marcel Velázquez Castro

The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets by Nidia Hernández (ed.)

  • by Susan Smith Nash

Zihuatanejo: Una novelita tropical by José Bocanegra

  • by Fran Béjar

El tiempo suspendido entre tus manos by Gisella Ballabeni

  • by María Belén Milla Altabás

Los regalos y las despedidas by Ricardo Montiel

  • by Izaskun Gracia Quintana

Volver a Shangri-La by Jorge Eduardo Benavides

  • by Gustavo Rodríguez

Campus by Antonio Díaz Oliva

  • by Keila Vall de la Ville
Nota Bene

Nota Bene: To Mexico and Beyond

  • by LALT Team
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