…shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, later receiving a Special Commendation from the jury, as well as shortlisted for the Latino Book Awards and longlisted for the Best Translated…

…driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that go to the heart of the human experience. The New York Times Book Review has described Alexie as “one of the…

Photo courtesy of carolosianni.com.ar Roberto Fernandez Retamar (b. 1930, Havana) is esteemed for his excellence as a poet, essayist, editor, and scholar. He undertook early studies in art and architecture…

Photo by Simon Hurst Maaza Mengiste‘s critically acclaimed novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (2010) was noted by the New York Times as “an important novel, rich in compassion for its…

…fifteen plays has received awards the Dublin Theatre Festival Best New Play Award, a Macauley Fellowship, a Hennessey Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and an E. M. Forster Prize…

…Her plays continue to be translated and performed around the world, and Bagheria (1993), her memoir about growing up in Sicily, stayed on Italy’s best-seller lists for two years. When…

…for Literature (1992, 2004). His novel Snow received France’s Prix Médicis (2005) and was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s “Best Books of the Year” in 2004….

…in 1993 it was made into a Broadway musical. Puig has written novels, plays, and screen plays. His best known novels include La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968) (Betrayed by…

…books: a dramatic poem, a volume of poetry—under the pseudonym Julio Denis—and five volumes of fiction. Rayuela remains his best-known work. For more about Julio Cortázar, see WLT, Vol. 44.1….