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Carlos Fuentes dies at 83; Mexican novelist
If Carlos Fuentes could have invented the perfect character to star in one of his novels, he might have come up with a protagonist named Carlos Fuentes. That character would be a glamorous global citizen who was born in Panama as a diplomat's son, then...
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: NPR, Companies and Corporations, Edward Albee, Henry Miller, U.S. Supreme Court
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'Mañana Forever?' by Jorge Castañeda
Los Angeles TimesMañana Forever Mexico and the Mexicans Jorge G. Castañeda Alfred A. Knopf: 294 pp., $27.95 Mexicans, like their Spanish forebears, love to quote proverbs as a way of underscoring eternal truths and imparting folk wisdom to younger generations....Tags: Crimes, Human Interest, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Mexico City, Indigenous People
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Theater review: 'Solitude' at the Latino Theater Company
Culture MonsterThe Latino Theater Company’s contribution to Radar L.A. is “Solitude,” by Evelina Fernández, a stylishly directed, charmingly acted but melodramatic and drawn-out portrait of Gabriel (Geoffrey Rivas), who reunites with his former best... -
The joys of Mexican vegetarian dishes
My Mexican grandfather used to say that salads were for rabbits. My Mexican father thinks a good steak cures any stomach ailment. And a Mexican friend used to joke that a pet pig that lived near my old Westside neighborhood would last approximately two...Tags: Garlic, Foods and Beverages, Mexico City, Mushrooms, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Ricky Martin, Nobel Prize Awards, Mexico City, World War II (1939-1945), Book
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Daniel Catan is remembered
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to be reunited on Mexican bill
La PlazaCritics interviewed by Milenio disagreed with the use of the artists' images for differing reasons. Historian Alejandro Rosas Robles said the Nobel Prize-winning writer Octavio Paz is a more worthy of appearing on the note because his work speaks more... -
Critic's Notebook: Mario Vargas Llosa's work and life push boundaries
Los Angeles Times Book CriticThe selection Thursday morning of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa as winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature raises a familiar question: Why him? Why now? On the one hand, Vargas Llosa is without question a writer of stature, a central figure...Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Education, Culture, Politics, Awards and Prizes
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Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel prize-winner punched Gabriel Garcia Marquez to make a political point
La PlazaThe writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a leading figure of the so-called "Boom" in Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s and an outsize political figure in his native Peru, has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy, announcing... -
Mario Vargas Llosa: Reaction in Latin America turns on Nobel winner's political views
La PlazaNow that Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, an award seen as a victory for Spanish-language and Latin American letters, comes the backlash over the Peruvian author's politics. Vargas Llosa, 74, known for his novels such as "The... -
Daniel Catán dies at 62; opera composer and librettist
Daniel Catán, an opera composer and librettist whose works including "Il Postino" and "Florencia en el Amazonas" have been praised for their lyrical romanticism and humane generosity of spirit, died suddenly Saturday in Austin, Texas. He was 62.
Catán'...Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Opera (genre), Alban Berg, Nobel Prize Awards, Mexico City
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