I missed this last month, but at Cornell's Chronicle Online Daniel Aloi reports that Bolivian author Edmundo Paz-Soldán creates place for Latin American voices.
Among the interesting titbits:
Certainly an author to look out for -- and his most recent book, Norte, sounds interesting (pre-order your copy of the (Spanish) US edition at Amazon.com).
Among the interesting titbits:
He went to the University of Alabama in Huntsville on a soccer scholarship starting in 1988, but "I tore a ligament my third year," he says. "I play soccer on XBox now."His two available-in-English titles are under review at the complete review: The Matter of Desire and Turing's Delirium.
Certainly an author to look out for -- and his most recent book, Norte, sounds interesting (pre-order your copy of the (Spanish) US edition at Amazon.com).