BUREAU LITERATURE PICK: NEW YORK . Mario Vargas Llosa . REVIEW 87


Americas Society  680 Park Avenue  
New York, NY  November 15, 2013   7:00 p.m.
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Review 87 (Fall 2013; Mario Vargas Llosa's Legacy/Andean Fiction & Arts Today) is guest-edited by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, and Edmundo Paz-Soldán.  The issue showcases essays on Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's oeuvre by scholars Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, John King, José Miguel Oviedo, Priscilla Meléndez, and Alfred Mac Adam; an interview at Americas Society with Mario Vargas Llosa and translator Edith Grossman; and original fiction in English translation by contemporary writers from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, including Liliana Colanzi, Rodrigo Hasbún, Esteban Mayorga, Giovanna Rivero, Santiago Roncagliolo, Gabriela Wiener, Carlos Yushimito and many others.  The issue also includes a memorial piece on Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros; features on contemporary Andean visual arts and music; and book reviews of new work in translation on Mario Vargas Llosa as well as titles by Isabel Allende, Earl Lovelace, Santiago Roncagliolo, and others.