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Bilal Tanweer | Interview
Bilal Tanweer & Ollie Brock
‘In my writing, the voice is the primary concern for me, and most of the time I construct everything else from it.’
After That, We Are Ignorant
Bilal Tanweer
‘He used to see things in his dreams and made them his policies. Yup, Americans loved his dreams because he was screwing the Soviets and Comrades in them.’
Granta em Português | Interview
Ollie Brock, Robert Feith & Marcelo Ferroni
‘It’s been a rich, multifaceted, very challenging and hugely rewarding professional experience.’
Colombia | Snapshot
Jaime Manrique
‘Two obsessions dominated my life during adolescence: to become a writer and to find my true love.’
Guatemala | Snapshot
Eduardo Halfon
‘The roads of Guatemala have always been its best and worst theatre.’
Carlos Yushimito and Santiago Roncagliolo In Conversation
Carlos Yushimito & Santiago Roncagliolo
‘We shouldn’t just study people through their archives, but also by being witness to their dreams.’
El Salvador | Snapshot
Horacio Castellanos Moya
‘Don’t mind the sun that beats leadenly down, or the light that stings their eyes, or the danger that lurks nearby, because that’s what life has always been: a little air gulped down amid the crowd.’
Tropics of Redemption
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
‘Lest we forget: the novel was invented in Spanish. We entered modern times through the spirit of a novel written in that language.’
Foreword
Valerie Miles & Aurelio Major
The foreword for Granta 113: Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists.
Stars and Stripes
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘He chewed on the syllables until they sounded the way they did in movies.’
The Coming Flood
Andrés Barba
‘When it happens, she gets the feeling that the men, for her, are a way to cling to life.’
The Place of Losses
Rodrigo Hasbún
‘I’m getting a divorce, I’m considering a divorce, I think I want a divorce.’
Gigantomachy
Pablo Gutiérrez
‘There’s no finding a telephone booth with anything more than an amputated cable hanging like a terrible extremity.’
After Helena
Andrés Neuman
‘What can damage us more? The blunt honesty of hatred, or the thwarted objective of reconciliation?’
Scenes From A Comfortable Life
Andrés Ressia Colino
‘That nothing that’s consumed is real; what’s real is expensive, and gets consumed slowly.’
Seltz
Carlos Yushimito
‘I thought I’d found the answer to many of life’s mysteries, but I had no words to share with the world.’
The Girls Resembled Each Other in the Unfathomable
Carlos Labbé
‘That’s what I was fated to discover. That we’ll never be allowed to experience a desire that we simply can’t handle.’
In Utah There Are Mountains Too
Federico Falco
‘No one had ever spoken her name in a foreign language.’
Gerardo’s Letters
Elvira Navarro
‘The last thing I feel like doing now is going in search of the gnome.’
The Bonfire and the Chessboard
Matías Néspolo
‘I’m not a snob, it’s just that down here we take chess seriously.’
Olingiris
Samanta Schweblin
‘Sometimes she lied. She didn’t do it maliciously; she did it to pass the time.’
Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra
‘It was hard for me to understand how someone could live alone.’
A Few Words on the Life Cycle of Frogs
Patricio Pron
‘I wasn’t going to abandon the dream of literature, I was going to keep dreaming.’
Introducing Andrés Neuman
Roberto Bolaño
‘When I come across these young writers it makes me want to cry.’
