Although 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 ideas that suggest a promising outlook.
Almad , an independent publishing house founded in Oaxaca, will bring the book of essays for the first semester of the year The future is a woman, by various 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 Prize "for her distinctive style in evading the stereotypical narrative of migration."
Natalia Trigo lives in Houston, where she is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the university founded and directed by Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza. The Spanish translation of Monkey Boy, by writer Francisco Goldman, born in Boston to a Guatemalan mother, a Jewish father, and settled in Mexico. The novel is an exploration of growing up with a divided identity like his.
For its part, the Spanish label specialized in short stories, Foam pins, postThere was a garden , a book of stories by the Argentine writer Valeria Correa Fiz, as well as the Collected stories by the Mexican pioneer writer of fantasy and horror stories Amparo Dila, with a prologue by the Argentine Mariana Enr uez. Coming in mid-AprilRed ash by Mexican Socorro Venegas, with illustrations by Mexican Gabriel Pacheco, in the publisher's collection of hardcover illustrated books.
The independent publishing house, based in Guadalajara, For the Lost, publish the book of stories Lullabies for the end of the world, by Majo Delgadillo, a writer from Jalisco currently living in the United States; The stories that