Venezuelan Literature

As part of CLAW Festival (Contemporary Latin American Writers), which takes place at the Cervantes Theatre in London from 3-9th July, there will be daily performances in English of Montague Kobbe...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2017/06/30/venezuelan-play-in-london-tales-of-bed-sheets-and-departure-lounges/

Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Caracas, 1981) is a writer, editor and university lecturer. His short stories have earned him recognition both in Venezuela and abroad. In 2007 he was selected for the...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2017/06/30/rodrigo-blanco-calderon/

En la televisión, la realidad también es un espectáculo. In television, reality is also a show. With his third novel, Rating (Anagrama, 2011), Alberto Barrera Tyszka brings his experience of w...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2016/05/24/rating/

Gustavo Valle has again won the Premio de la Crítica de la Novela for his surreal adventure Happening, having been awarded the 2009 prize for Bajo Tierra. Judges Luis Miguel Isava, Adriana Cab...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2015/10/17/happening-wins-premio-de-la-critica-de-la-novela-2014/

In April 2014, Tibsay Rodríguez Torres’ short story Blood, translated below, beat 124 other entries to win the Premio del Cuento de la Policlínica Metropoliana. The judges praised her blend...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2014/11/12/blood-by-tibisay-rodriguez-torres/

The streets of Pittsburgh were adorned with portraits of some of the greatest Venezuelan poets in July as part of ‘River of Words’, the project from graphic designer Carolina Arnal, artist Gi...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2014/11/05/venezuelan-poets-adorn-the-streets-of-pittsburgh/

La escribana del viento (Editorial Alfa) by Ana Teresa Torres (Caracas, 1945) is the winner of this year’s Premio de la Crítica de la Novela, organised by Ficción Breve Venezolana, with the ...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2014/09/29/la-escribana-del-viento-by-ana-teresa-torres-wins-premio-de-la-critica-2013/

For the second year running, Venezuelan booksellers have voted for their favourite books of the year. The winners were Jacqueline Goldberg’s Las horas claras (Cultura Urbana) for narrative, a...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2014/09/17/premio-de-los-libreros-2013/

VERSIÓN EN ESPANOL ABAJO. Based in New York, Sudaquia Editores publishes great new and recent works of Latin American literature to cater for the Spanish speaking market in the States and beyond...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2014/08/10/interview-with-sudaquia-editores-founder-asdrubal-hernandez/

Books from Oasis is the new publishing venture from environmentalist turned novelist Cinzia De Santos which aims to publish books from Venezuelan authors here in London. Cinzia explains that the�...

https://venezuelanliterature.co.uk/2014/07/06/books-from-oasis-publishing-venezuelan-literature-in-london/