Benjamin Bratt, one of the stars of "Love in the Time of Cholera," says filming a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a challenge of a lifetime. The movie, directed by Mike Newell, is the first ...

New translations of Juan Emar's Yesterday, Cristina Rivera Garza's New and Selected Stories, and Gabriela Alemán's Family Album offer a look at human nature — and adventures along the way.

On the occasion of the 30th World Book Day, the Global Times and the Embassy of Colombia in Beijing hosted the "Spring Reading" - China-Latin America Literature Salon on Tuesday at the hall of the ...

Celebrating 50 years of the Latin American Literary Boom. Nov. 14, 2012— -- The explosion may have happened long ago, but its echoes are still being heard. Almost half a century separates the ...

The study of Latin died out because it became a “dead language” you couldn’t use for anything. It was a charming anachronism. Today the reading of literature in school is dying the same slow ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy. With more than 50 works ...

Jean Franco, a literary scholar who did much to shape Latin American studies in the late 1960s and ’70s, examining the region’s literature through feminist and political perspectives, died on ...