Lest Writers Become Accountants: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.
Spanish
Spanish – PEN Transmissions
On the Other Side of the Door that Leads to Hell: An Interview with Selva Almada
Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix
Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.
Self-censorship and silence
Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Autocensura y silencio
Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
The translator as literary activist
Jethro Soutar writes for PEN Atlas on the urgent case of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, the PEN-award-winning author whom he translates and is now trying to help protect, as Juan faces persecution from the regime in Equitorial Guinea
Imagine – Writing fiction in Mexico
Juan Pablo Villalobos returns to PEN Atlas this week, asking us to imagine the struggle of being a writer in Mexico, where fiction is so often outpaced by brutal reality
PEN Atlas Q&A – Alejandro Zambra, author of Ways of Going Home
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, the responsibility of memory and the nation of Chile being in a period of convalescence
Why we keep going
In this week's PEN Atlas piece, Lydia Cacho writes about the post-traumatic stress of being a persecuted journalist, and the media's appetite for titillation rather than indignation
Lydia Cacho has gone
In this week’s PEN Atlas piece, Sanjuana Martinez pays tribute to her friend and colleague Lydia Cacho who has been forced to temporarily flee their native Mexico in the wake of terrifying deaths threats.
Bodies not corpses
In his latest PEN Atlas piece, Juan Pablo Villalobos introduces new voices which demonstrate Mexico’s rich literary landscape
Against Narcoliterature
This week for PEN Atlas, Juan Pablo Villalobos writes against ‘Narcoliterature’. This piece has been translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey.
I Don’t Want To Be In This Film Any More
The PEN Atlas series continues with a powerful despatch by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos.
