Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, 1910) fought in the Spanish Civil War and was known as the poet of the people and the revolution. From a very young age his experience tending sheep and goats gave him a keen appreciation of the natural world and compassion for the farm laborer. He read voraciously and as a teenager published his poems in local magazines earning for himself the moniker of «the goatherd poet.» He made numerous trips to Madrid where he developed close friendships with other poets, among them Vicente Aleixandre and the Chilean, Pablo Neruda. After the defeat of the Republic, he …

Gonzalo Rojas (1916-2011) was born in Lebu, Chile, to a family of miners. As a university student captivated by Catullus and Ovid, the avant-garde poet Gonzalo Rojas fell in love with surrealism and jazz. As a diplomat for the Allende government in China and Cuba, he was condemned to exile and continued writing in the Democratic Republic of Germany, Venezuela and the United States. He returned definitively to Chile in 1994. He was awarded the Chilean National Prize in Literature (1992), the Reina Sofía Prize in Spain (1992), the José Hernández Prize in Argentina (1997), the Octavio Paz Prize in …

Octavio José Oliverio Girondo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1891 / Buenos Aires, 1967), known as Oliverio Girondo, born in the same decade as Alfonsina Storni and Jorge Luis Borges, is one of the most noteworthy Argentine poets of the 20th Century. He was a key figure in the twentieth century Bonaerense avant-garde, specifically he was part of the Grupo Florida that worked together on the literary journal Martín Fierro. He was a poet of modernity, big cities, travel, technology, and modern alienation who always strove to renew poetry and find new modes of expression. He experimented with form and language itself …

Una versión japonesa de El silencio de los corderos con ecos a Emmanuel Carrère.Rika Machida es la única mujer en la redacción de la revista semanal en la que trabaja. Quizá por eso sea la única que consigue contactar con Manako Kajii, una mujer condenada a cadena perpetua por seducir y asesinar a varios hombres con la intención de usar su dinero para costearse talleres de cocina y comidas lujosas. Así comienza una serie de encuentros entre las dos mujeres que pronto transforman el interés inicial de Rika, meramente profesional, en una extraña fascinación hacia la supuesta asesina.Kajii no encaja …

La serie Horizon Carré por iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Vicente Huidobro, la Universidad de Washington y RIL editores, se propone acercar al público anglolector, en forma bilingüe, selecciones de poesía de grandes autores de la lengua española en cuidadas traducciones, presentadas por escritores y académicos contemporáneos. En esta edición: Vicente Huidobro, uno de los más destacados poetas chilenos, junto con Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda y Nicanor Parra. Iniciador y exponente del creacionismo, es considerado uno de los grandes renovadores de la poesía en lengua española. Se relacionó con escritores de las vanguardias parisinas de hace un siglo como Apollinaire, Breton, …

La serie Horizon Carré por iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Vicente Huidobro, la Universidad de Washington y RIL editores, se propone acercar al público anglolector, en forma bilingüe, selecciones de poesía de grandes autores de la lengua española en cuidadas traducciones, presentadas por escritores y académicos contemporáneos. En esta edición: Alfonsina Storni, también conocida por los seudónimos Tao-Lao y Alfonsina, fue una poeta y escritora argentina cuya obra, vinculada con el modernismo, se caracterizó en los comienzos por el acento romántico y la sencillez pero después por una visión más oscura e irónica. Hizo incursiones en la dramaturgia. Storni expresó ideas feministas, …

¿Mentimos para sentirnos menos solos?Shibata es la única mujer de su oficina. No se puede quejar: es un trabajo estable y aquí nadie la molesta ni le hace proposiciones fuera de tono. Pero está harta de no salir nunca a su hora y de que sus compañeros den por sentado que debe encargarse de servir el café, limpiar, ordenar… Hasta que, una mañana anuncia que no seguirá ocupándose de nada de esto. Está embarazada. O eso dice.Diario de un vacío sigue el día a día de Shibata desde que anuncia su falso embarazo y recupera, por fin, tiempo para sí …

Arsène Lupin, the monocled Gentleman Thief is a mixture of Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood, stealing from the wealthy and offering to the less fortunate. Those whom he defeats are worse villains than he is. Arsène is a thief, a master of disguise, a rascal but never a killer. He possesses such wealth that he does not need to steal for material reasons but does so for pleasure and he is famous for always getting away with his crimes. The iconic character of Arsène Lupin, a smart, funny, very elegant and suave fictional burglar and womanizer was originally created by …

Lagon, a parallel world where you will find yourself!.

Johnny Pull is a fatherless Scottish teenager who loves comics and tales. He goes on an excursion with his classmates to an emblematic castle in Scotland. There he finds the grave of Sir Light, the protagonist of a legend his grandfather once told him about. Johnny has a fascinating vision in front of the grave that will change his life forever.

Along with his two best friends, Michael and Vicky, he finds a very special and strange book, the Scottish Legends, an invisible book that holds the key (the prophecy …

The election of Fernando Belaunde as president of the republic in 1980 marked Peru's return to democracy after twelve years of military government. Since then, the country has had nine general elections and no military coups. Even so, there have been a number of episodes that have posed a serious risk to Peruvian democracy. In April 2021, Peruvians will face what is perhaps the most critical election of the last four decades. With the dual crises of public health and the economy unleashed by the Coronavirus pandemic, made even more acute by a third, political crisis forged within the country's …