Every year, Lima hosts the FIL or Feria Internacional del Libro, inviting various authors to share their stories.

A museum that interactively tells the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was opened at the Playa del Carmen resort in southeastern Mexico.

When Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, both considered integral to the “Latin American Boom” literature movement in the 1960s and 70s, asked authors to contribute to a book about “the fathers of the homeland,” they were asking for stories on political tyrants – specifically, each author’s “favorite national tyrants.”