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
October 2023
Mario Vargas Llosa says latest novel will be his last
Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’
September 2023
Edith Grossman obituary
Exceptional translator of novels by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa as well as other Hispanic authors
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
May 2022
Author Mario Vargas Llosa backs Bolsonaro over Lula in Brazil election
Peruvian writer criticises incumbent’s ‘clowning around’ but says he is still preferable to former president
April 2022
Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library
The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a €12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him
November 2021
Book of the day
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa review – CIA secrets and breathtaking lies
The Nobel laureate’s tale of a coup in 1950s Guatemala speaks to our times
January 2021
Virtual travel guides
A virtual tour of Peru through films, food, books and music
We may not be able to travel at the moment, but our new series of virtual guides brings the world to you – starting with a cultural tour of Peru
March 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about boarding school
From Evelyn Waugh to Molesworth, novels set in these places of privilege are microcosmic studies of oppression and rebellion
October 2019
Mario Vargas Llosa: Peru's suspended congress are 'semi-illiterate swindlers'
Nobel-prize winning author remarks after president dismissed deputies as the country is rocked by a constitutional crisis
January 2019
Mario Vargas Llosa quits writers' body over Catalan remarks
Nobel laureate resigns after Pen International calls for release of jailed Catalan leaders
September 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 real-life monsters in fiction
Bringing the very worst humans – from Joseph Stalin to Idi Amin – to life in novels is a tough call. But it can be done well, if you can bear to read
May 2018
Digested read
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa – digested read
The Neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa review – a steamy page-turner
March 2018
Mario Vargas Llosa: murder of Mexican journalists is due to press freedom
Nobel prize-winning novelist causes outrage with comments, with more than 100 journalists killed in Mexico in past decade
November 2016
It’s all for love as Spain’s Barbara Cartland finally gets a chance to woo British readers
Corín Tellado is famed throughout the Spanish-speaking world for her light romance novellas
March 2016
Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa: Trump is a 'clown and a racist'
Author calls Republican frontrunner dangerous in a country that is ‘too important’ worldwide to have a demagogue in power
February 2016
Literary prize for Mario Vargas Llosa sparks backlash in Dominican Republic
Politicians and pundits in the Caribbean country remain unhappy about the Peruvian Nobel laureate’s comments about a law that stripped thousands of citizenship
December 2015
Where Uruguay leads, the rest of the world struggles to keep up
Emma Graham-Harrison
South America’s second smallest country seems to be reinventing itself as a beacon of innovation and progress
November 2015
Top 10s
Top 10 assassination plots in fiction
Plans to kill have a powerful appeal for narrative plotters, including novelist Jonathan Lee. Here are some of his favourites, from Hilary Mantel to Ian Fleming
