country: Guatemala

Still Water

On the silt and pebble-covered floor of the lagoon lay the body of a man. His open eyes seemed to be looking at the sun of a lower, liquid sky. A small black and yellow fish swam along the ridge of his leg, another nibbled at his ear. He had been down there for some […]

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The Polish Boxer

69752. That he had it tattooed there, on his left forearm, so he wouldn’t forget it. That’s what my grandfather told me. And that’s what I grew up believing. In the 1970s, telephone numbers in Guatemala were five digits long. I called him Oitze, because he called me Oitze, which means something soppy in Yiddish. […]

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Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Rodrigo Rey Rosa (born in Guatemala, 1958) is one of the most celebrated Spanish speaking writers of recent decades, a translator and a traveler. He has published ten novels, including The Pelcari Project (1991), The Good Cripple (1996) and The African Shore (1999); and more than six books of short stories, such as The Beggar’s […]

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Eduardo Halfon

Eduardo Halfon is a Guatemalan writer. He was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. Descendant of a Jewish family, he spent his childhood in Guatemala, among the virgens and saints of syncretism. After his entire family moved to the United States, he studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University. Upon graduation, he returned to […]

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