Contributors
- Contributors
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–90) was the Cuban author of, among many other books, The Palace of the White Skunks, The Assault, and Before Night Falls, all published in English translation by Viking.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was Argentina’s foremost man of letters in the twentieth century. His oeuvre has been retranslated and published in three volumes by Viking. The essay in this issue, dictated to Borges’s mother, Doña Leonor Acevedo, in 1965 and edited by Jean de Milleret, author of Entretiens avec Jorge Luis Borges, originally appeared in the volume of Les Cahiers de L’Herne that is devoted to Ezra Pound. This is the essay’s first appearance in English.
Persephone Braham teaches Latin American literature at Barnard College.
Hugo Estenssoro, a Bolivian journalist based in London, regularly contributes to British newspapers and is European correspondent for the Brazilian publications Republica and Bravo. An earlier version of his obituary of Antônio Houaiss appeared in the Independent on 18 March 1999.
Victor J. Guerra is editor of CMAS Books, a small press within the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Maurice Kilwein Guevara, a native Colombian, is professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and author of Postmortem (University of Georgia Press) and Poems of the River Spirit (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Dolores M. Koch has translated Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir Before Night Falls (Viking), as well as his novel The Doorman (Grove Weidenfeld) and many of his short stories for The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing, Grand Street, Index on Censorship, and several anthologies, including The Art of the Tale, edited by Daniel Halpern (Viking). She has also translated the memoir of Oskar Schindler’s widow, Emilie Schindler, Where Light and Shadow Meet (Norton); Alina Fernández’s memoir Castro’s Daughter (St. Martin’s); and Laura Restrepo’s novel The Angel of Galilea (Crown).
Oscar Montero is professor of Latin American literature at Lehman College and the Graduate Center. He is author of The Name Game: Writing/Fading Writer in “De Donde Son los Cantantes” (University of North Carolina, Department of Romance Languages), on the Cuban writer Severo Sarduy, and Erotismo y representación en Julián del Casal (Rodopi).
José Neves da Silva lives in Olinda, Brazil. He is author of Irmã Dulce merece o Prêmio Nobel. Augustus Young’s adaptation of his cordel “ABC of Inflation” first appeared in Belfast in 1991 (Honest Ulsterman).
Octavio Paz (1914–98), Mexico’s most illustrious man of letters in the twentieth century, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1990. His many books include Sor Juana; or, The Traps of Faith (Harvard University Press) and The Double Flame: Essays on Love and Eroticism (Harcourt Brace). A tribute to him by Ilan Stavans appeared in Hopscotch 1:1. The essay in this issue is from Itinerario (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico), which Menard Press is publishing in England and Harcourt Brace in the United States.
Pinto Repentista Embolador lives in Brazil’s Recife area. Augustus Young’s adaptation of his cordel “Rich Man and Poor Man” first appeared in London in 1989 (Iron Magazine).
Anthony Rudolf, a translator, editor, and essayist in London, is publisher at Menard Press. His many books include The Arithmetic of Memory (Bellew).
Raúl R. Salinas, a poet and activist, is author, most recently, of East of the Freeway: Reflections de Mi Pueblo (Red Salmon). He lives in Austin, Texas, where he owns Resistencia Bookstore. Arte Público Press has just released a new edition of his Trip through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursions.
Gerardo Suter, a self-taught photographer, was born in Argentina but lives in Mexico. His work, exhibited internationally, explores themes of memory, nostalgia, and the persistence of the pre-Columbian past. Suter’s photographic series include El archivo fotográfico del profesor Retus (Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico) and Tiempo inscrito (Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico).
Jason Wilson is professor of Latin American literature at University College, London. His books include Octavio Paz: A Study of His Poetics (Cambridge University Press) and Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion (Interlink).
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