Latin America’s women writers ride wave of acclaim

Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trias poses for pictures at Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia, on November 5, 2021. — AFP photo 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. They reject the label of a new ‘Latin American boom’ like the one that thrust male writers such as Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa and Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Instead, they see their success as a welcome break from the prejudice that sidelined many of their predecessors during the 20th century.