The Spanish word for “puddle” or “pond,” “charco,” is a colloquialism people in Latin America commonly use to describe traveling between America and Europe. Born in Buenos Aires as the daughter and granddaughter of bookshop owners, she settled in the United Kingdom, where she earned a PhD in Latin American literature from the University of Edinburgh. “The idea behind publishing contemporary literature was to intervene in this sort of stalled status quo.”“What is Latin American literature in the minds of English-speaking readers? I think that combination works.”Orloff also noted that the way Latin American literature handles certain topics like politics is especially interesting to foreign readers. “Ideologically, it’s something we feel we have to do.”That commitment is not limited to offering a representative selection of contemporary Latin American literature.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 04, 2023 22:17 UTC