Tag: Articles & Comment

Legally blind

The Guatemalan author Oswaldo Salazar burst on to the literary scene with From the Darkness, originally published in Spanish as Por el lado oscuro, recounting the story of a notorious murder in 1939. Piecing the crime together from newspaper reports culled from a press in thrall to the then authoritarian dictator Jorge Ubico, Salazar realised…

Categories: Central America, Guatemala

Paradise postponed

Costa Rica is shaking off its image as a paradise of stability where there is nothing to write about, argues journalist and author Óscar Núñez Olivas, who recently launched his latest novel Cadence of the Moon, (originally published in Spanish as En clave de luna). A new generation of Costa Rican writers – and publishers…

Categories: Central America, Costa Rica