Photo: BIDīroader economic factors are responsible, and public-sector publications have experienced a similar downturn. The three largest regional markets – Brazil, Argentina and Mexico –have seen their production fall by 87%, 64% and 39%, respectively, since 2013.
Liliana Colanzi, Bolivian author and writer.
While that figure represented an increase in output from the previous year, the general recent trend has been stagnation or decline. In 2017, Latin America and the Caribbean issued more than 195,000 titles in Spanish and Portuguese, according to data from the Regional Center for the Promotion of Books . The regional publishing industry has provided a platform for Colanzi, Escobar and their contemporaries. Related Article: The Women Behind the Orange Economy in Latin America A New Edition Many clichés and traditional views of Latin America are challenged in the process. That newly enabled voice has explored topics such as gender violence and the crisis in our relationship with nature. There are many amazingly talented women in Latin American literature,” she says. “There is an effort to vindicate the position of women globally, which empowers us to use a voice that we have had for a long time, but that had not been used as we are using it now. The “magic realism” of Gabriel García Márquez, the novels of José Donoso and the short stories of Julio Cortázar were enshrined in the world canon.įor Escobar, whose novel The House of Beauty has been translated into twelve languages, this phenomenon is steeped in a broader context. When the tide subsided, it left behind numerous classics, two of which went on to win the Nobel Prize. The first Latin American literary wave spread through the world in the sixties and seventies, as readers from all latitudes consumed works in translation from Colombia, Argentina, Chile and beyond. “There are sensitivities that are opening other paths in the literature that are totally unexpected, vital and renewing, and that are associated with female voices.” “There have always been powerful women writers, but they have not had the same visibility as their male peers… I think this is a moment of change,” says Colanzi, author of the award-winning story collection Our Dead World. Two of them, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia and Melba Escobar from Colombia, participated in this year’s National Book Festival at the Library of Congress in Washington, in an event co-organized by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This wave, unlike its predecessor, is led by women writers.
Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a new literary moment.
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