Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists
Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction
March 2023
Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer
Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator
November 2013
World library
The best books on Mexico: start your reading here
Our literary tour of Mexico starts with its bloody revolution and ends with political disappointment and the fight for a better future
June 2013
FBI treated Carlos Fuentes as communist subversive
Acclaimed Mexican author and thinker had visas denied and was tracked when he did visit US, newly public files reveal
June 2012
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: Latin American novels and poetry
Philip Roth scoops Asturias award and pays tribute to Carlos Fuentes
May 2012
My hero
My hero: Carlos Fuentes by Alberto Manguel and Liz Calder
Listening to Carlos Fuentes with my eyes
Carlos Fuentes dies aged 83
Carlos Fuentes obituary
December 2008
The week in books
The week in books
The Nobel laureate on why he writes; Fuentes's birthday; and sale of the century
October 2008
Domestic violence
Review: Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes Alberto Manguel admires Carlos Fuentes's bloody vignettes of family history
June 2007
Man Booker International judges honour Chinua Achebe
'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist including Carlos Fuentes and Doris Lessing, signaling the £60,000 prize's status as an authentic world award.
May 2006
Fuentes leads Latino line-up at Hay
Carlos Fuentes, the acclaimed Mexican novelist and essayist, will be appearing at the Hay festival, heading up a line-up of treats for fans of Spanish-language literature.
March 2006
Bordering on prophecy
Maya Jaggi on Carlos Fuentes' The Eagle's Throne, a novel set in the future that informs the present.
September 2004
Lost in translation
No doubt his prose is fluent in his native Spanish, but being rendered into English has done Carlos Fuentes's collection of essays, This I Believe, absolutely no favours, says Adam Mars-Jones.
March 2003
Fatal attraction
Death in Salzburg
May 2001
A picture of mural life
The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes is a gargantuan epic, but where are the real people, asks Alex Clark
