Horacio Quiroga, a Uruguayan author who settled in Argentina, is considered to be one of the most important Latin American short story writers of all time. His work displays a personal language, far from the style of European modernism and the avant garde.
Right from the novel’s intriguing title –Hotels of Silence –, Javier Vásconez drags us to the brink of horror. For is there anything more chilling than the sound of a child’s cry piercing the night from inside a hotel?
Huida al Tibet by Endika Urtaran won the XIII (2011) Desnivel Prize for Literature. Jon is a Basque chef and renegade mountaineer who, after a family upset, escapes to Tibet.
Humberto López y Guerra is a Cuban-Swiss filmmaker, journalist and writer who began his cinematographic career in Cuba, later on training further in Switzerland. He studied directing at the Deutschen Hochschule für Filmkunst in Bablesberg, Germany(1963-1967).
Basajaun knows how to take care of forests and mountains, how to cure nature when it is sick. This time, little Hur will help him find water in the dry land to cover the dried up mountain with plants again. Will they succeed?
I. Biggi was born in San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa) in 1965. He studied psychology at the País Vasco University and is a passionate autodidact with regard to all things historical.
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Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...