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LALT No. 19

Volume 1,

Number 19.

August,

2021

In our nineteenth issue, we close out Women in Translation Month with a special selection of Spanish-language women writers reflecting on groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector and her impact across national and linguistic borders. We also feature a dossier on Colombia’s Álvaro Mutis, fourth Latin American winner of the Neustadt Prize, and reflections on Spanish-language creative writing programs and the University of Salamanca’s José Antonio Ramos Sucre Lecture Series on Venezuelan Literature.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: August 2021

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Clarice Lispector

I see words, they taste of flesh

By Fernanda García Lao

Clarice, Childhood, and Chickens

By Sylvia Georgina Estrada

The Passion According to G.H.

By Victoria de Stefano

Hands in the Fire

By Katya Adaui

Dossier: Álvaro Mutis

Álvaro Mutis: Novelist in the Crow’s Nest

By Zulfikar Ghose

The Passionate Fire of Álvaro Mutis

By Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda

Álvaro Mutis on Himself

By Álvaro Mutis

Álvaro Mutis, Reader

By Mario Barrero Fajardo

Álvaro Mutis: In Memoriam

By Carlos G. Torres-Rodríguez

José Antonio Ramos Sucre Lecture Series on Venezuelan Literature

Carmen Ruíz Barrionuevo and América

By José Balza

My Educational Experiences with the José Antonio Ramos Sucre Lecture Series on Venezuelan Literature at the University of Salamanca

By Ioannis Antzus Ramos

Salamanca in the Distance

By Gustavo Guerrero

Salamanca: A Route on which Writing Takes Shape

By María José Bruña Bragado

Brazilian Literature

Letícia’s Marriage

By Nara Vidal

Fiction

Luminous Fall

By Gunter Silva

Shotgun in the Grass

By Cezanne Cardona Morales

Water with Sugar

By Carlos Pintado

Poetry

Three Poems

By Ricardo Silva-Santisteban

Four Poems from Fuerza bruta

By Maha Vial

Three Poems

By Julián Herbert

Essays

Clarice Lispector: Beyond the Grip of Theory

By Guillermo Cerceau

Where the Rocinantes Go to Die

By Víctor Carreño

Gracias

By Rafael Cadenas

Interviews

“Poetry is like the rain, the wind, like walking”: An Interview with Ch’ol Poet Juana Peñate Montejo and Five Poems

By Carol Rose Little, Charlotte Friedman, Juana Peñate Montejo

“If you look closely, the ordinary is extraordinary”: An Interview with Rafael Cadenas

By Juan Cruz

Modes of Violence: A Conversation about Hurricane Season with Fernanda Melchor

By Fernanda Melchor, Jake Neuberger

Indigenous Literature

On the Eve Of, Cherries are Born

By Estercilia Simanca Pushaina

Two Quechua Micro-Stories

By Noemy Condori Arias, Ramiro Vega, Yovana Gabriel

Three Poems

By Roxana Miranda Rupailaf

Spanish-Language Creative Writing Programs

The Mysteries of Creative Writing

By José de Piérola

From Writing Workshop to Literary Creation Program: An Interview with Isaías Peña Gutiérrez (Universidad Central, Bogotá)

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Isaías Peña Gutiérrez, Óscar Daniel Campo

“Committed Workshopping”: A Conversation with Ana Merino (MFA in Spanish Creative Writing, University of Iowa)

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Ana Merino, Óscar Daniel Campo

Translation Previews and New Releases

From The Love Parade

By Sergio Pitol

From Elena Knows

By Claudia Piñeiro

From Home Reading Service

By Fabio Morábito

On Translation

Women in Translation Month according to Women Translators

By Denise Kripper

Three Poems from The Confessions

By Fabián O. Iriarte, Lawrence Schimel

On Translation: Seeking Publisher

From Diptych of the Border

By Luis Mora-Ballesteros

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: August 2021

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Días hábiles by Óscar Daniel Campo

By Gustavo Bueno Rojas

Escribir afuera: Cuentos de intemperies y querencias by Raquel Rivas Rojas, Katie Brown, and Liliana Lara (eds.)

By Luz Marina Rivas

La naturaleza química de las emanaciones by Mariana Libertad Suárez

By Néstor Mendoza

La gota en la piedra by Mercedes Álvarez

By Luis Carlos Azuaje

98 segundos sin sombra by Giovanna Rivero

By Anabel Gutierrez León

El próximo desierto by Santiago Acosta

By Betina Barrios Ayala

Amar a Olga by Gustavo Valle

By Pedro Plaza Salvati

Señuelo by Regina Ramos

By Leonor Courtoisie

El ciervo by Yolanda Pantin

By Vanesa Almada Noguerón

Páradais by Fernanda Melchor

By Luis Madrigal

La vida enferma by Hernán Vera Álvarez

By Raquel Abend van Dalen

Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, translated by Christina MacSweeney

By Gillian Esquivia-Cohen

Clavel y tenebrario/Carnation and Tenebrae Candle by Marosa Di Giorgio, translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas

By Juan de Marsilio

El ojo en la mira by Diamela Eltit

By Mónica Barrientos

Cacería incesante by Pedro Novoa

By Gunter Silva

Sé huir by Luisebastián Sanabria

By Ivonne Alonso-Mondragón

Los memorables by Lídia Jorge, translated by Ma. Auxilio Salado Pérez

By Alejandro Badillo

Las segundas criaturas by Diego Cornejo Menacho

By Carlos Burgos Jara

El Señor Presidente by Miguel Ángel Asturias

By César Ferreira


Fabla salvaje by César Vallejo

By José Cardona-López

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