Literal Magazine - Amazing Interviews

Literature is More Than a Profession: A Conversation with Eduardo González Viaña

John Pluecker

Eduardo González Viaña was born in a small coastal town in northern Peru, and in all his writing the deserts, rivers, animals and shamans of this land find a way…

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Super Novas: A Conversation with Cuban-American Writer Himilce Novas

Mónica María Parle

One imagines that being part of a prominent literary and intellectual family in the exiled, 1960’s-era, Cuban-American community of New York City would be a heavy mantle to bear, and…

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The Persistence of Memory: A Conversation with Mario Vargas Llosa

La memoria pertinaz

Miguel Ángel Zapata

Translated to English by Rose Shapiro Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) spends part of every year in Lima, Madrid, Paris, and London. This summer I had the good fortune…

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Love and Loss: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans

El amor y la pérdida

Ilan Stavans

VERÓNICA ALBIN: How should one define the word love? ILAN STAVANS: As a most amorphous human emotion, capable of incorporating extremes: attraction and repulsion, exultation and misery, Eros and Thanatos. V.…

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The Necessity of Speaking: A Conversation with Eduardo Milán

Steven J. Stewart

Translated to English by Steven J. Stewart and Patrck Madden Eduardo Milán was born in Rivera, Uruguay in 1952. His mother died when he was a year old, and when…

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A Journey to the Primal House: A Conversation with Isaac Goldemberg

Viaje a la primera casa

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

Translated to English by Sharon Kerr and Marisela Chaplin Isaac Goldemberg was born in Peru in 1945 and has lived in New York since 1964. He has published three novels,…

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The Ritual of Poetry: A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Zapata

El Ritual de la Poesía

Miguel Ildefonso

Translated to English by Angela McEwan With the publication of El cielo que me escribe (Mexico, 2002), Miguel Ángel Zapata has become a needed and innovative presence in the new…

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The Arte Público Press: Interview with Nick Kanellos

Debra D. Andrist

Nick Kanellos is a hero—es un héroe, un salvavidas—he saved that which was disappearing beneath the waves of neglect and prejudice. He jumped into the shark-infested waters of publishing and…

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Una defeña en Brooklin: Entrevista con Carmen Boullosa

Guadalupe Gómez del Campo

Carmen Boullosa (México, 1954) es poeta, novelista y dramaturga. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a varios idiomas. En 1989 recibió el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia por Antes (novela), La salvaja (poesía) y Papeles irresponsables (varia invención), publicados…

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Rodrigo Rey Rosa: Una escritura sin precipitaciones

Rodrigo Rey Rosa

La austeridad en la narrativa de Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala, 1958) ha sido un camino ganado a través del oficio. La llaneza y precisión que caracterizan sus novelas (El cojo…

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Las girlfriends on the Caramelo book tour of Spain

Liliana Valenzuela

La Sandra asked me to come on this trip to Spain with her, as she was feeling a tad nervous about giving interviews and readings in the Spanish of Cervantes.…

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Gioconda Belli: Tres aproximaciones al trabajo de una voz que se desnuda – Entrevista

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

...quizás el arte de leer poesía, que obliga a la introspección, a la reflexión, sea menos corriente ahora. Pienso que mucha gente ha perdido la costumbre de recorrer su paisaje…