In 1965, at 29 years of age, the Uruguayan singer Alfredo Zitarrosa released the album that was soon to make him a national legend: El canto de Zitarrosa. That album, which included such songs as “Milonga para una niña,” “El camba,” “Mire amigo,” and “Recordándote,” was an instant success on the charts, its singles competing

For a generation of Colombian writers living abroad, Bogotá’s Book Fair offers a chance to return home.

Un minuto feliz, a new play by Argentine dramatist Santiago Lozano, debuted on May 6th at Chile’s Centro Gabriela Mistral (GAM). The play, written last year while Lozano enjoyed a writer’s residency at the GAM, is based on the Chilean capital’s infamous “cafés con piernas” (cafes with legs), coffee shops where attractive, miniskirt-clad barristas, who

Brazilian dancer Marcus Abranches premiered a dance piece inspired by Norwegian painter Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream on April 29th and 30th at São Paulo’s Dance Reference Center.

Mexican writer Fernando del Paso has been awarded the Premio Cervantes, the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world.

Colombian author Laura Restrepo’s new book, Pecado (Sin), takes on the daunting subject of human evil. 

Diego Velázquez, who won the Best Actor Award at the Bafici International Competition, stars in La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis, which was also honored as Best Film. 

The new management team at Buenos Aires’s iconic Centro Cultural Recoleta (CCR) last week presented its proposals for courses and workshops for the upcoming season.

In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, the Instituto de México has put on display 28 artworks by the recently deceased Spanish painter Sofía Gandarias.

Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s new novel, La forma de las ruinas (The Shape of the Ruins), centers around one of his country’s most infamous crimes: the assassination of politician and Liberal Party presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948.