Pilar Reyes is the literary director of Penguin Random House. She says that a new boom is dawning in Latin American literature.
A boom of women and men from all over Latin America are writing more, she says. Reyes: Latin America continues to live through turbulent times and that produces a lot of force in terms of literary interpretation. "That boom, that boom, baptized in Los Nuestros by the legendary Luis Harss, happy alive, is history. But its seed has germinated everywhere, and in all styles and sexes"