MEXICO CITY, Nov 27 — From Uruguay to Mexico, Argentina to Ecuador, women writers from across Latin America are enjoying growing acclaim after years of marginalisation by an industry they say has long favoured male authors.
This weekend, hundreds of writers, editors and literary agents are expected to gather in Mexico’s second city for the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered one of the world’s most important.Mugre RosaThe 20th-century Latin American boom elevated figures such as Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa, but also “made the great women writers of that time invisible,” Trias, 45, told AFP.
“And in that, women have always been the great narrators of everyday life, of the inner life,” said the 48-year-old. But “I’m not going to cry about this inequality. We denounce it and turn it into a challenge,” she said.
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