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Venezuela

Bridging Distances: Three Hispanic Canadian Authors

By María José Giménez

Writing by authors of Latin American descent living in Canada is seldom read, taught, or reviewed beyond the country’s borders.

The Witness

By Israel Centeno

How does a person follow the path of a fairy tale?

Translated from Spanish by Valerie Miles

Multilingual

An Introduction to New Venezuelan Writing

As I write, ten protesters have been killed and several hundred jailed.

A Mexican Story

By Alberto Barrera Tyszka

My friend Lencho Mejía has been murdered thirty-seven times in Los Angeles.

Translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Multilingual

Ancient Plumbing

By Milagros Socorro

Her Lycra leggings looked as if they’d been galvanized onto her thighs by the sun’s blowtorch.

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

Multilingual

Standing Stones

By María Auxiliadora Álvarez

its gulp may drink you down its foam overwhelm you

Translated from Spanish by Catherine Hammond

Multilingual

Regeneration

By Victoria de Stefano

Have any of you actually met this nun?

Translated from Spanish by Ruth Clarke & Jethro Soutar

Multilingual

Axel, Itinerant Dog

By Ana Teresa Torres

Dogs appear suddenly, and they disappear without a trace.

Translated from Spanish by Lucy Greaves

Multilingual

Darkness

By Yolanda Pantin

But there are condemned men

Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver

Multilingual

A Separation

By Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles

His last meeting with her had been a mounting exchange of curses.

Translated from Spanish by Ollie Brock

Multilingual

Making Peace

By Rafael Cadenas

Let’s come to an agreement, poem.

Translated from Spanish by Lucy Greaves

Multilingual

Requiem

By Slavko Zupcic

I was the one who killed Borges.

Translated from Spanish by Jeremy Osner

Multilingual

Living to Write: An Interview with Doménico Chiappe

By Jonathan Blitzer

Only time, the persistence of works in time, their readings after ten, fifty, or a thousand years will say if the edifice was constructed with strong, durable, or perishable materials.

Translated from Spanish by the author

The Writer of Memories

By Doménico Chiappe

I felt the arrogance with which one regards the dispossessed.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Multilingual

Ride of the Valkyries

By Juan Carlos Chirinos

Now the president is gulping down a pair of tranquilizers with his whiskey.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Beyond the Realms of Fiction: An Interview with Juan Carlos Chirinos

By Jonathan Blitzer

What began in 1997 as an academic “excursion” became a kind of immigration experience and now seems to have turned into an indisguisable exile

Translated from Spanish by the author

Roosters and Bones

By Sergio Chejfec

The reason is that they don’t remain clean

Translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Polli