'Of Women and Salt', a genealogy of sisterhood
Five generations of strong women and three countries are the protagonists of Gabriela García's debut, a novel that aims to be an antidote to the "myths" of migration and Latinidad.
Five generations of strong women and three countries are the protagonists of Gabriela García's debut, a novel that aims to be an antidote to the "myths" of migration and Latinidad.
Cinco generaciones de mujeres fuertes son las protagonistas del debut literario de Gabriela García, una novela que pretende ser antídoto a los “mitos” de la migración y la latinidad.
Up to 200 authors, including Sandra Cisneros, will be present April 9-11 at the SABF after reviving the festival.
Hasta 200 autores, entre ellos la mexicoamericana Sandra Cisneros, se darán cita del 9 al 11 de abril en el SABF tras retractarse de su anuncio de cancelación.
Colombian writer Patricia Engel's new novel follows the life of a family between two continents at the mercy of changing immigration policy.
La escritora colombiana Patricia Engel nos introduce en su nueva novela en la vida de una familia entre dos continentes y a merced de la cambiante política migratoria.
Organised by the publishing house Suburbano Ediciones, SED aims to be a bridge to the "Spanish-speaking world."
Organizado por la editorial Suburbano Ediciones, SED pretende ser un puente con el “mundo hispanoparlante”.
From Julia Alvarez to Tere Marichal-Lugo and Kacen Callender, these Caribbean-born writers should be on every reading list for kids and young adults.
De Julia Álvarez a Tere Marichal-Lugo pasando por Kacen Callender, estas escritoras nacidas en el Caribe no deberían faltar en la lista de lecturas de los jóvenes y los más pequeños.
Prisons in residential areas, executioners who confess and children who witness massacres. Nona Fernández again immerses readers within a Chilean dictatorship, and turns it into a liminal zone.
Being bilingual and aiming to empower U.S. Latino and Hispanic children is the higher purpose of Del Alma Publications.
Frequently-overlooked pulp literature in Spanish is still alive in the flame of small projects all over South America.
The author, 'Gringa-Rican' Ann Davila Cardinal, puts us in a post-Maria Puerto Rico and tears our hearts out. But they still beat.
It could be 2032 or the year after this election. Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher's migrant dystopia is a brilliant call to action that is both heartbreaking and current.
A soporific and politically skimpy gala doesn't put Latino writers on the map, it invites its readers to turn on the TV.
Una gala soporífera y políticamente desnatada no pone a los escritores latinos en el mapa, invita a sus lectores a encender el televisor.
A short story where love can only be found in dreams and the desire for a different life seems unreachable.
Gabriela Guerra Rey, a Cuban writer who emigrated to Mexico, is the author of “Bahía de Sal,” a fiction novel in which she describes the dramas experienced in a little village on the outskirts of Havana during the Special Period.
Diana Rodríguez Wallace creció en las afueras de Filadelfia, en un hogar en el que no se hablaba español. A través de sus novelas juveniles, ha querido reconectar con su identidad puertorriqueña.
Diana Rodriguez Wallach grew up on the outskirts of Philadelphia in a home where Spanish was not spoken. She tries to reconnect with her Puerto Rican identity through her young adult novels.
Suffragettes, protesters, speakers and leaders - from Ana Roqué Géigel de Duprey and Luisa Capetillo in the late 1800s to Mariposa Fernández and Monica Carrillo in our current times - since the beginning of the 20th century, women have had to fight for their place in society as equal individuals, in front of a oppressive masculine society and a convenient feminine one.
2017 Pura Belpré Awards from the American Library Association Honor Latino Authors for Cultural Literature. The awarded authors highlight the importance of cultural diversity and integration.