is coeditor of Se Habla Español (Miami: Alfaguara, 2000), an anthology of Latin American authors writing, in Spanish, about the United States. In 1996 he published the notorious "McOndo," (a pun of the famous Macondo from Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude) an anthology of fiction by Latin American writers under 35. His anti-magical realist novel Mala Onda (Bad Vibes) was a bestseller for several weeks in 1991, and in 1989 his collection of short stories, Sobredosis, received the Santiago Municipal Award. He will be reading at Prairie Lights from his forthcoming novel, The Movies of My Life. He is currently a columnist for Chilean newspaper El Mercurio.
1994 Participants
Riad Hanna Beidas
Kim Cheng Boey
Seung Ja CHOI
Carlos FEILING
Beryl FLETCHER
Khadijah HASHIM
Josef HASLINGER
Osama ISBER
John KINSELLA
Ambrose MASSAQUOI
Niranjan MOHANTY
Sydney Othusitse MOTHEI
Patrick Emeka NWABUEZE
Amir OR
U Win PE
Jerzy PILCH
Astrid ROEMER
Martin ROPER
Helena SINERVO
Alexander SKIDAN
Seona SMILES
David TOSCANA
Lyonel TROUILLOT
Sue WOOLFE
Haruhiko YOSHIMEKI
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Happening Now
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We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
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Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.
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Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.
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Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.
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