Yamila Bêgné
Yamila Bêgné has published four collections of short stories and three novels, including Los límites del control (The Control Limits) (2017), Cuplá (2019), and La Máquina de febrero (The February Machine) (2021).
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Dr María Dueñas
María Dueñas’s first novel, The Time in Between, published in 2009, became a worldwide publishing success and is the one that first brings her fame.
Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall
Marie Thérèse Colimon-Hall wrote three plays, a novel, a collection of short stories and numerous collections of poetry and essays. She is considered one of Haiti’s most prominent female authors.
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé is the author of several novels, numerous plays, books of short stories, and essays and articles on African and Caribbean literature.
Melba Escobar
Colombian writer Melba Escobar writes a column for the Colombian newspapers El Espectador and El País. Her novel “House of Beauty” (Fourth Estate) was chosen as one of the best books of 2016 by the Colombian National Novel Prize.
Marta Lynch
Marta Lynch published seven novels and nine collections of short prose. Her first novel, La alfombra roja (The Red Carpet)(1962), won the Fabril Prize and was instantly popular. La señora Ordóñez (Mrs. Ordóñez) (1967), was just as successful and was eventually adapted for television (1984).
Nadia López García
Nadia López García is the author of the poetry collections Ñu’ú Vixo /Tierra mojada (2018), Tikuxi Kaa/El Tren (2019), Isu ichi/ El camino del venado (2020) and Dorsal (2021).
Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon is the author of more than a dozen books, including novels, essays and memoirs.
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Brazilian author
Julia Álvarez
Julia Alvarez’s “In the Time of the Butterflies” (Algonquin) made her an international sensation. The book details the lives of four sisters living under the dictatorship of the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo.