Latin American Literature: From the “Boom” to the Aftershock

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Horacio Castellanos Moya

Horacio Castellanos Moya (Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1957) worked for two decades as a news editor in Mexico and Central America, and has published more than a dozen novels, five short story collections, and four nonfiction books. His novels include Insensatez, (2004; Senselessness, 2008), Tirana memoria (2008; Tyrant memory, 2011), and El sueño del retorno (2013; The Dream of My Return, 2015). He teaches in the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Iowa. This text originally appeared in Spanish in Roque Dalton: Correspondencia clandestina y otros ensayos (2021).