But don’t be deterred, because Cockfight also manages to combine its unfiltered darkness and depravity with captivating storytelling and effective recurring motifs of faith, animals, and blood.Īcross a baker’s dozen of short stories, most often centering children or childhood memories, Cockfight distils tales of familial violence behind a bold yellow cover designed by Sukruti Anah Staneley. It is as important as ever to be vigilant to ensure "that what has been won is not lost," Trias added.Īmpuero sees the increased visibility of women thanks to international movements against gender violence such as "Me Too" as an important factor.This post contains affiliate links to independent bookstores.īefore I even started reading Cockfight – the Frances Riddle-translated English-language and fiction debut of Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero – a friend voice noted me about it: “Lauren… Cockfight is one of the most fucked up books I think I’ve ever read.” After reading it for myself, I mean…yeah, accurate. "To think that at this moment we are on an equal footing is a bit naive," she said. Striking a note of optimism, Nettel underlined that in 2014 she was only the third woman in 30 years to win the Herralde award - and since then, three others have received it.Īlthough there are steps in the right direction, Trias warned that "the fight is not won in the least."
We denounce it and turn it into a challenge," she said. Pacheco regrets that in Peru there are not as many reviews of women's work as in Argentina or Spain.īut "I'm not going to cry about this inequality. The extent of progress is also uneven depending on the country. "Everything that women produce is positioned as if it were female literature," while male literature is just literature, says Brazilian writer Djamila Ribeiro NELSON ALMEIDA AFP Her compatriot Cristina Peri Rossi won this year's Cervantes Prize, considered the most prestigious award in Spanish-language literature.
The 20th-century Latin American boom elevated figures such as Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa, but also "made the great women writers of that time invisible," Trias, 45, told AFP. Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trias will receive the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize for her novel "Mugre Rosa" (Filthy Rose). This weekend, hundreds of writers, editors and literary agents are expected to gather in Mexico's second city for the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered one of the world's most important. Instead, they see their success as a welcome break from the prejudice that sidelined many of their predecessors during the 20th century.
They reject the label of a new "Latin American boom" like the one that thrust male writers such as Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa and Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.
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