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Argentinian legendary Marxist philosopher, who wrote about decolonial thought, ethics and liberation, died in México City at 89 years old. https://elpais.com/mexico/2023-11-06/muere-enrique-dussel-fundador-de-la-filosofia-de-la-liberacion-a-los-89-anos.html?outputType=amp

Uruguayan poet and Cervantes prize laureate Ida Vitale is now 100 years old. https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20231102/ida-vitale-cumple-100-anos-poeta-incandescente-traves-palabras-vejez-segunda-adolescencia/2459866.shtml

Serbian-american poet Charles Simic died recently. https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/murio-los-84-anos-el-poeta-y-ensayista-servio-estadounidense-charles-simic

Just three weeks and this godawful year will be over. Jeez... Here are my favorite reads so far: ??Stream System - Gerald Murnane ??Cuentos completos (A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories) - Juan Carlos Onetti ??The Door - Magda Szabó ??Slouching Towards Bethelem - Joan Didion ??Season of...

Mexican poet and editor, son of legendary Efraín Huerta, winner of the FIL prize and the Xavier Villaurrutia prize in México, died today at the age of 72 in his home, due to kidney disease. His most important work, Incurable (1987), is a long, complex philosophical poem of almost 400 pages on...

Ediciones Era published four years ago (2017) a generous selection of José Emilio Pacheco's Inventario, his extraordinary column, spanning four decades of reviews, essays, opinion pieces, historical notes and literary master classes. The three tomes together sum up to an impressive 2000 pages...

Legendary french cartoonist Sempé (known alongside René Goscinny for their Le Petit Nicholas series) died today. He was 89 years old. https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5040701/0/muere-el-dibujante-frances-sempe-ilustrador-de-el-pequeno-nicolas/

One of the most important voices in Mexican poetry died this morning. The Tiger will be missed. https://www.razon.com.mx/cultura/muere-eduardo-lizalde-tigre-cambio-panorama-poesia-mexico-484030

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html

I was planning on reading Jerzy Andrzejewski's "The Gates of Paradise", but found out "The Children's Crusade" by Marcel Schwob was based on the same medieval story. It is shorter so I tackled Schwob's first, in an excellent edition paired with "Imaginary Lives" and translated by Rafael Cabrera...

I found the second volume of France and England in North America by Francis Parkman. Bought it ultra cheap in a thrift shop (the equivalent of two dollars) in the Library of America Edition. Even though I was not initially interested in the topic, my booklover spirit couldn't miss the chance of...

Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza just won the chilean José Donoso Prize for Iberoamerican Literature. Other winners include writers like Javier Marías, Lobo Antunes, Raúl Zurita, Ricardo Piglia, José Emilio Pacheco, Diamela Eltit and Cristina Peri Rossi...

I was thinking about posting a few threads on living mexican writers I really like. Might as well start with Eduardo Antonio Parra! http://www.mertin-litag.de/authors_htm/Parra-E.htm I'm a sucker for the short story form, and Parra is one of the best mexican short story writers alive today...

Mexican poet and translator José Vicente Anaya died a few days ago in México City. He was one of the best known poets of the infrarrealist movement. Roberto Bolaño (who was a member) immortalized this vanguardist and iconoclast group in his novel "The Savage Detectives". Anaya was also an...

How's it going, fellas? Who's in for a virtual meet-up? For those who are interested, we probably should start by stating our city and time zone, so we can discuss the optimal hour of the day for a meeting. I'm currently living in Baja California (México) so that should be... UTC-7? Also we...

Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón has died today, after a two year battle with cancer. I loved The shadow of the wind. It's a fast paced, passionate story, a love letter to reading, literature and bookworms. Very sad to hear this, he was still very young...

Legendary mexican short story writer Amparo Dávila died today at 92. She will be missed.

Taiwanese poet Yang Mu died almost a month ago, and I just knew about it today. I've only read him in English translation (very academic ones, by the way, but he was an academic himself, so no idea how that influences the process of translation), through "No Trace of the Gardener", a very...

Has anyone read the argentinian writer Hebe Uhart? She was born in 1936 and died two years ago. Very prolific prose writer, wrote several novels, memoirs (are they memoirs? Literary chronicles? Travelogues? Genres are hard) and short story collections. Right now I'm enjoying her collected...

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