Pick A Country Adjacent To Where You Live & Name One Author You Would Recommend From There. (9/24/23)

[Marc]

Who is an author you'd recommend from a country adjacent to where you live now?
(If you live on an island, pick the country closest to you. If you haven't read any authors from countries adjacent to you, let us know who you'd most like to read.)

[Stacia]

Well, I can't stick to just one...

Mexico: Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Canada: Michael Crummey, Galore: A Novel

Jamaica: Kei Miller, Augustown

Cuba: Yoss, Red Dust

Dominican Republic: Rita Indiana, Tentacle

Haiti: Evelyne Trouillot, The Infamous Rosalie
and
René Depestre, Hadriana in All My Dreams

[David]

Cristina Rivera Garza for me.

[Simona]

I live in Romania, so that would be Georgi Gospodinov from Bulgaria.

[Robert]

Malta is between Italy and Libya so:

Italy - im not scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
Libya - Hisham Mater - Country of Men

[Ruben]

Robert wrote: "Malta is between Italy and Libya so:

Italy - im not scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
Libya - Hisham Mater - Country of Men"

Two of my favourite authors - albeit it very different ones! I will add Daniel Kehlmann from Germany

[Marc]

I don't think I've read any Libyan literature...

I was going to go with David's pick above, but I'll choose another Mexican writer and book since a new translation is due out this week courtesy of Serpent's Tail:
Juan Rolfo's Pedro Páramo.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Mexico - Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (at least I assume she still lives in Mexico...)

[Sam]

Mexico Still Born Guadalupe Nettel This is an established author

Canada Glorious Frazzled Beings
Angelique LaLonde This author is relatively new and fresh

[Glenda]

Mexico - Gabriel García Márquez. Brilliant.