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Issue 25.

March,

2023

Our twenty-fifth issue opens with special features on Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda, a defining voice of the contemporary Andean Gothic, and on the dynamic world of Latin American children’s literature. We also present interviews with Edmundo Paz Soldán, Mikeas Sánchez, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, a reflection on the legacy of Afro-Venezuelan poet Miguel James, poetry in Nahuatl and Tsotsil, exclusive previews of upcoming books in translation by María Fernanda Ampuero, Carmen Boullosa, and Irma Pineda, and three previously unpublished poems by Rafael Cadenas, winner of the 2022 Cervantes Prize.

Cover photo by Isabel Wagemann.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: March 2023

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Mónica Ojeda

Notes on a Writing of Magnitude: Mónica Ojeda and Poetry

By Andrea Armijos Echeverría

“My Writing Comes from Fear and Desire”: A Conversation with Mónica Ojeda

By Andrea Armijos Echeverría

On Mónica Ojeda

By Daniela Alcívar Bellolio, Abril Altamirano, Damián De la Torre Ayora and Eduardo Varas Carvajal

Fear in the Andes, Mónica Ojeda in Translation: A Translators’ Conversation

By LALT Team

Dossier: Children's Literature

The Traveler and His Shadow 

By Franco Vaccarini

Publishing Books for Children: A Specific Context

By Fanuel Hanán Díaz

Lawrence Schimel: “It is important for all of us to remember that children live in the world with us”

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

Picture Books in Contemporary Colombian Children’s Literature: The Rebel Riches of Independent Publishing 

By Natalia Ramírez Reyes

INTERVIEWS

Edmundo Paz Soldán: La mirada de las plantas

By Víctor Vimos

Poetry that Sows and Sings in Zoque: An Interview with Mikeas Sánchez

By Krishna Naranjo Zavala

Singing our Superstitions: Juan Gabriel Vásquez and his Cuaderno de septiembre

By Néstor Mendoza

Rafael Cadenas, 2022 Cervantes Prize Winner

Three Unpublished Poems

By Rafael Cadenas

ESSAYS

The Waste Land, One Hundred Years Later

By Marcelo Pellegrini

Letter to a Friend on Criticism and the Essay

By Miguel Gomes

FICTION

Trance

By María Pérez-Talavera

Three Flash Essays

By Leila Sucari

The Silver Lake

By Pablo Baler

POETRY

Four Poems

By Guillermo Ruiz Plaza

From The Ballad of Joey Stefano

By Luis Pérez Oramas

Three Poems 

By Marisa Martínez Pérsico

From World Literature Today

Never Again: An Excerpt from 11

By Carlos Soto-Román

Black Literature

The Poetic Journey of Miguel James

By María Antonieta Flores

Indigenous Literature

Four Poems 

By Susi Bentzulul

Two Poems 

By Martín Tonalmeyotl

Book Presentations

Notes for a Presentation of Voz en camino by Roberto Onell H.

By Pedro Lastra

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Human Sacrifices, translated by Frances Riddle

By María Fernanda Ampuero

From The Book of Eve, translated by Samantha Schnee

By Carmen Boullosa

From In the Belly of Night and Other Poems, translated by Wendy Call

By Irma Pineda

ON TRANSLATION

Translation as a Selfless Art: A Conversation with Joaquín Gavilano, Winner of the 2023 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant

By Denise Kripper

Goodbye to A Kind Man: In Memory of Marcelo Cohen (1951-2022)

By Ariel Dilon

Seeking Publisher: from Guerrilla Blooms, translated by Edith Adams

By Daniela Catrileo

BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Three Short Stories from The Elders

By Alê Motta

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: March 2023

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Iluminado artificio: Ensayos sobre la obra de Mercedes Roffé, edited by Eugenia Straccali

By Francine Masiello

Faralá y otros versos by José Manuel Aguilera

By Teresa Casique

La mirada horizontal: Textos periodísticos by Luisa Valenzuela

By Claudia Cavallin

País de Jauja by Edgardo Rivera Martínez

By César Ferreira


Siluetas hablando porque sí by Diego L. García

By Néstor Mendoza

Acta de fundación by Victor Vimos

By Paúl Puma

El abrazo de los frijoles by Verónika Reca

By Geraudí González Olivares

Salvo mi corazón, todo está bien by Héctor Abad Faciolince

By Alonso Cueto

La vieja Inés (todo sobre el caso Torres Villaquirán) by José Cardona López

By Luis Arturo Ramos

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