We denounce it and turn it into a challenge," she said. Pacheco regrets that in Peru there are not as many reviews of women's work as in Argentina or Spain.īut "I'm not going to cry about this inequality. The extent of progress is also uneven depending on the country. "Everything that women produce is positioned as if it were female literature," while male literature is just literature, says Brazilian writer Djamila Ribeiro NELSON ALMEIDA AFP Her compatriot Cristina Peri Rossi won this year's Cervantes Prize, considered the most prestigious award in Spanish-language literature. The 20th-century Latin American boom elevated figures such as Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa, but also "made the great women writers of that time invisible," Trias, 45, told AFP. Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trias will receive the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize for her novel "Mugre Rosa" (Filthy Rose). This weekend, hundreds of writers, editors and literary agents are expected to gather in Mexico's second city for the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered one of the world's most important. Instead, they see their success as a welcome break from the prejudice that sidelined many of their predecessors during the 20th century. They reject the label of a new "Latin American boom" like the one that thrust male writers such as Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa and Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |