Literatura

Professor Americo Mendoza Mori shares a poem from Peruvian writer José María Arguedas.

In our latest episode of Literatura Oral, AL DÍA reporter Emily Neil reflects on the impact of the poet Federico García Lorca on her own life.

The Honduran-born and Philly-based author, Allan Fajardo, talked to AL DÍA about his recently published novel that reveals the history of Honduras and the experience of being an immigrant.

The seventh episode of Literatura Oral explores the controversial family Buendía in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad.

Celebrating the life and works of one of the most important poets and dramatist of the twentieth century. 

Rhymes, passion and women: the work of one of Spain's most important modernist poets. 

The thirty-fourth edition of the Bogota International Book Fair with the slogan "Léete. El país invitado eres tú", is a subtle but disturbing portrait of the nation's feelings and tensions.

A short story where love can only be found in dreams and the desire for a different life seems unreachable. 

Writers at the 3rd Annual Hispanic Book Festival of Virginia spoke on the importance of maintaining the Spanish language as a medium of creative expression. 

The unspoken effects of the dictatorship in Chile inspired the play by Ariel Dorfman, which contains more than just a historical tale of torture and suffering.

Spanish professor Rogelio Miñana, visits AL DÍA for a conversation that not only questions reality but also the virtue in people, through the mind of Miguel de Cervantes. 

The premiere episode of this new series takes us to the timeless world portrayed in the book Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. 

Perhaps because he wrote all his work in Spanish, this master of literature is easily overlooked. In the age of the Internet, not anymore. His words were alive this week in a AL DÍA Studio during the recording of the first episode of a podcast series entitled “Literature to Listen to” (Literatura Oral), soon to be launched.

Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli’s novel “Lost Children Archive” chronicles losses large and small, personal, national, and historical - while serving as proof of the aspects of truth which slip between the cracks in even the most airtight reporting on the arrival of many immigrants from Central America at the southern border.

Here are some of the most relevant titles on immigration that should be on your reading list and on your bookshelf.

Colombian-American journalist Silvana Paternostro’s new book on Gabriel García Márquez uses oral histories of friends, acquaintances, admirers, and colleagues of the legendary journalist and author to construct a portrait of the man behind the iconic works of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Love in the Time of Cholera,” and more.

In her new book, Eileen Truax explores how, contrary to popular perception that the question is still up for debate, the U.S. has already “built the wall,” keeping asylum seekers out through the immigration system itself.

In his newly-published book of poetry, "In case I die tomorrow," Albor Ruiz gives voice to his journeys from his hometown of Cárdenas, Cuba, to the streets of New York City, in Manhattan.