Latin American literature to come in 2022

Despite the fact that the almost two years that the COVID19 pandemic has lasted so far have hit the Latin American literature market hard, the publication plan of some publishers for the first months of 2022 presents a plurality of voices, themes and genres that offer a promising outlook.

Almadíaan independent publishing house founded in Oaxaca, will bring for the first semester of the year the book of essays The future is a woman, by several female authors (not to be confused with the book of the same title by Tati Ortiz Monasterio), as well as the novel Marfa, with which Mexican writer Natalia Trigo won the 2019 Aura Estrada Award ?for her distinctive style in evading the stereotypical narrative of migration?

Natalia Trigo lives in Houston, where she is studying for her PhD in Creative Writing, founded and directed by Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza. Also coming to this publishing house will be the Spanish translation of Monkey Boy, by Boston-born writer Francisco Goldman, whose mother is Guatemalan, father is Jewish and lives in Mexico. The novel is an exploration of growing up with a divided identity like his own.

For its part, the Spanish label specializing in short stories, Foam pageswill publish There was a gardena book of short stories by the Argentine writer Valeria Correa Fiz, as well as the Collected stories by Mexican writer and pioneer of fantastic and horror stories Amparo Dávila, with a prologue by Argentine Mariana Enríquez. In mid-April will arrive Red ash by Mexican Socorro Venegas, with illustrations by fellow Mexican Gabriel Pacheco, in the publisher's hardcover picture book collection.

The independent publishing house, based in Guadalajara, Paradise Lostwill publish the book of short stories Lullabies for the end of the world, by Majo Delgadillo, a writer from Jalisco currently living in the United States; The stories still heard at the end of the mountain, by Josué Sánchez from Veracruz, and Gourmandise. Signature recipes and cooking for life, an anthology of chronicles, essays, stories, ramblings and even curated recipes, by Édgar Adrián Mora on the pleasure of taste, why cooking and eating are also works of art.

At Grand Traversethe Mexican subsidiary of Editorial Oceano, an imprint dedicated to young adult literature, will publish the novels Scoundrel timesby the writer Jaime Alfonso Sandoval; The tornado tamer ?third part of the saga ?El país de la niebla? by Salvadoran poet and storyteller Jorge Galán, and Iron moonThe third part of "La nación de las bestias", by Jalisco-born Mariana Pavlova. In its Hotel de Letras imprint, it will publish Anthology of 20th Century Poetrycompiled by the chronicler, essayist and critic Carlos Monsiváis, and Anthology of 19th century poetry, whose compiler was journalist, poet and narrator José Emilio Pacheco. From the fund that bears the same name as the publishing house, a new edition of the classic by Armando Ramírez, chronicler of the barrio bravo of Tepito, will be released in bookstores, Chin Chin the Teporochoas well as Dying by killinga posthumous novel by screenwriter and storyteller F. G. Haghenbeck, who passed away on April 4, 2021.

As for the Mexican subsidiary of the publishing group Penguin Random Housewill be published under the Literatura Random House imprint. Your tongue in my mouth, second novel by Mexican-born Berlin émigré Luisa Reyes Retana, who won the Mauricio Achar Literatura Random House Prize in 2017 with Arde Josefinain addition to The Runner or The Devil's Own Soulsby Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz, a native of Monterrey.

Finally, one of the most awaited novelties, which will arrive in March in bookstores in Mexico and Spain, published by the Mexican publishing house Sixth Flooris the novel Ash in the mouthby Brenda Navarro, a Mexican writer living in Spain, who was a great success with her first novel, Empty houses, first published in 2018 by Kaja Negra and in 2019 by Sexto Piso, and with which she won the XLII Premio Tigre Juan de Novela in December 2020.

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