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➣Read Carlos Egaña's in depth and personal take on Venezuela's long road towards dictatorship and the struggle for democracy, Beneath the Shadow of Night, published by Norsk PEN.
1-Grenade in Mouth by Miyó Vestrini
A collection of visceral, very Venezuelan poems from one of my main influences. Read it to get inspired to write with aggressive eloquence!
2-Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
An excellent novel by one of Latin America’s most important authors of the last century and PEN International's President Emeritus. Expect to learn tons about Peruvian history and society, and to find some unexpected brightness in the cynical tone of the narrator.
3-The Land of the Mild Light by Rafael Cadenas
An anthology of beautiful and precise poems from Venezuela’s most important living author. Read them to reflect, to breathe, to find joy in disillusion too.
4-A Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik
Another poetry collection — in this case, by a fascinating Argentinian writer. A book to rethink beauty, death, and the ironies of existing.
5-Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva
A recently published sci-fi novel by a young Argentinian author. Full of grotesque scenes, get ready to feel inside a Cronenberg movie based in South America while browsing through this book’s pages.
