Latin America is full of literary talents and many of them have left a mark on classic and contemporary literature. Even if you’ve never visited the countries in this region, novelists like Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende allow you to escape the prison of your mind and take flight in somebody else’s. After all, there’s no better way to satisfy your curiosity than with good reading material. In this episode, Marina shares a vast selection of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction works that offer a distinct look into the histories, voices, and views of Latin American authors and the people that inspire their stories.

Mentioned this episode:

• Gabriela Mistral
• Miguel Ángel Asturias
• Pablo Neruda
• Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude / Love in the Time of Cholera
• Octavio Paz
• Mario Vargas Llosa 
• José Hernández: Martín Fierro
• Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits / The Stories of Eva Luna / Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses / Paula
• Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / This Is How You Lose Her
• Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X
• Daniel Alarcón: Lost City Radio
• Richard Blanco
• Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
• Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory
• Juan Felipe Herrera
• Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate
• Martha Batalha: The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
• Nélida Piñon: The Republic of Dreams
• Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents / In the Time of the Butterflies
• Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch

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