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Latin American Boom: 5 writers who took the continent’s literature to the world
The 1960s literary movement travelled from Spanish and Portuguese to the English-speaking world on the back of acclaimed ...
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From Castro to Thatcher: Vargas Llosa’s journey as a politician
The writer, who was a presidential candidate in Peru in the 1990s, turned from Marxism to liberalism with the zeal of a ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, luminary of Spanish-language literature, dies at 89
He helped lead the Latin American “boom” of literary fiction in the 1960s, a burst of creativity and stylistic ...
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From Cuban Medical Student to Honduras' Science Minister: "I Was a Leader and Spent Countless Hours with Commander Fidel"
Luther Castillo Harry, once a student at Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), now holds the position of Secretary ...