Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.
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Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.
Read MoreArgentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
Read MoreLeo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.
Read MoreSanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Read MoreSanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Read MoreJethro Soutar writes for PEN Atlas on the urgent case of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, the PEN-award-winning author whom he translates and is now trying to help protect, as Juan faces persecution from the regime in Equitorial Guinea
Read MoreJuan Pablo Villalobos returns to PEN Atlas this week, asking us to imagine the struggle of being a writer in Mexico, where fiction is so often outpaced by brutal reality
Read MorePEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, the responsibility of memory and the nation of Chile being in a period of convalescence
Read MorePEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, the responsibility of memory and the nation of Chile being in a period of convalescence
Read MoreIn this week’s PEN Atlas, Lydia Cacho writes about the post-traumatic stress of being a persecuted journalist and the media’s appetite for titillation rather than indignation
Read MoreSanjuana Martinez pays tribute to her friend and colleague Lydia Cacho who has been forced to flee Mexico
Read MoreWhen I was asked to write this blog, the first option immediately suggested to me as a possible topic was that of the literature about the violence in Mexico. I have to confess that my first reaction was to refuse and get defensive
Read MoreThis week for PEN Atlas, Juan Pablo Villalobos writes against ‘Narcoliterature’. This piece has been translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey.
Read MoreThe PEN Atlas series continues with a powerful despatch by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos.
Read MoreThe PEN Atlas series continues with a powerful despatch by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos.
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