A posthumous novel by Roberto Bolaño and new works by Guatemala’s Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Mexicans Mario Bellatin and Laia Jufresa are among Frankfurt’s Latin American rights harvest.

‘Very Diverse International References’

Literature from Latin America may well capture many rights buyers’ attention at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, with a solid line-up of debuts and works by well-established writers poised to cross the Atlantic.

Cristóbal Pera, director of the Spanish-language catalog at the Wylie Agency España in New York, tells Publishing Perspectives of continued interest in works in the language among readers and publishers.

“Without a doubt,” Pera says, “there’s a new generation of writers in Latin America and Spain, which has very diverse international references, but with Bolaño always in the background and no longer the so-called ‘boom’—with brilliant works that are more and more attracting the attention of foreign editors, critics and 

By Adam Critchley

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