Homero Aridjis on the need for free speech in Latin America.
Author: Tess Scriptunas
Karl Ove on Brain Surgery in The New York Times Magazine
Karl Ove witnesses brain surgery in Albania.
“A landscape opened up before me. I felt as if I were standing on the top of a mountain, gazing out over a plain, covered by long, meandering rivers. On the horizon, more mountains rose up, between them there were valleys and one of the valleys was covered by an enormous white glacier. Everything gleamed and glittered. It was as if I had been transported to another world, another part of the universe. One river was purple, the others were dark red, and the landscape they coursed through was full of strange, unfamiliar colors. But it was the glacier that held my gaze the longest. It lay like a plateau above the valley, sharply white, like mountain snow on a sunny day. Suddenly a wave of red rose up and washed across the white surface. I had never seen anything quite as beautiful, and when I straightened up and moved aside to make room for the doctor, for a moment my eyes were glazed with tears.”
Life Embitters Makes The Irish Times’ Best Non-Fiction Books of 2015
“[Pla’s] observations of life surpass those of many novelists”
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-non-fiction-books-of-2015-1.2468644
Two Archipelago Books on World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations List
We’re celebrating this holiday season! Tristano Dies and This Life made World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations list.
Angel of Oblivion Wins the Prix du Premier Roman in France
Le Prix du Premier Roman, France’s prize for the best novel of the year, has been awarded to Maja Haderlap for Angel of Oblivion!
Check out the article here.