A white Latina of Colombian extraction ... On the musicality of her work, her mother, Fabiola Restrepo, said, “I would read poetry to her, even when she was potty training.

David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern ... in the classroom as well as the classics, translating Latin and Akkadian works that he would later quote in his original ...

And it was a favorite of more than a few Uruguayan poets and writers ... His most famous book, Open Veins of Latin America, was published in 1971. A hard-hitting examination of the gutting ...

These documents are single sheets of common paper of variable size, 26 x 38 cm or 35 x 56 cm ... and some features of Chilean popular poetry are also present in other countries of Latin America and ...

Occasionally, applicants already have poems in literary journals or even books under their belt, but Childers had something rare, if not totally singular: a contract with Penguin to translate a volume ...

Mario Benedetti, Uruguay’s leading poet and one of Latinamerica’s most ... from Exile,” “Montevideans” and his essay “The Latin American Writer and the Possible Revolution.” ...

Prof. Emeritus W. Ralph Johnson, a distinctive critic of Latin poetry and the renowned University of Chicago author of multiple books on Latin and comparative literature, passed away on April 13. He ...

The woman is Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean poet, educator and diplomat, who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Long depicted in fusty garb and known for ...