CKCU Literary News
Wednesday April 20th, 2022 with Hans G. Ruprecht & Alberto Quero
Latin American Literary News - Spring 2022

Highlights: 🔶Cristina Peri Rossi laureate of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2021. Madrid, Apr 13, 2022 (EFE).- “King Felipe VI will present the 2021 Cervantes Prize to the Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi on Friday, April 22, in the traditional ceremony held in the auditorium of the University of Alcalá de Henares, after two years in which it could not be done. […] Cristina Peri Rossi, born in Montevideo on November 12, 1941, although she has lived in Barcelona since the 1970s and who also has Spanish nationality, is one of the most outstanding writers in the Spanish language and the author of an extensive narrative, poetic, essay and journalism.” https://today.in-25.com/entertainment/news/amp/52174 La Academia Nacional de Letras de Uruguay homenajea a Cristina Peri Rossi en el Día Internacional de la Poesía  22 de marzo de 2022. El acto tuvo lugar el 21 de marzo de 2022 a las 18 horas en el Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo https://www.asale.org/noticia/la-academia-nacional-de-letras-de-uruguay-homenajea-cristina-peri-rossi-en-el-dia Complete list of published works by Cristina Peri Rossi https://alchetron.com/Cristina-Peri-Rossi 🔶Julio Travieso, winner of the 2021Cuban National Awards for Publishing, Literature, and Social and Humanistic Sciences. 🔶Noé Jitrik (Argentina). 🔶Cristian Alarcón, "Cuando me muera, quiero que me toquen cumbia: Vidas de pibes chorros." Nicole Cecilia Delgado (Puerto Rico), now at VA Center for the Book | Arts, Books & Literature, Cultures & Communities. 🔶Alejandro Andrés Zambra (Chile). 🔶Cristina Rivera Garza won the Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso 2021 https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/criveragarza.html 🔶Luis Fernando Rangel (II Premio Internacional de Poesía Nueva York Poetry Press 2021).