CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
PART II 21st CENTURY
by Sam Simon
Writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez dominated the Latin American “Boom,” of the mid-20th century. Marked perhaps by the frenzy that Roberto Bolaño created when he was first translated into English in 2003, we are currently experiencing a “new boom,” one represented by far more kinds of writers writing from many different backgrounds all across Latin America.
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