2015 was a record-setting year for the Colombian film industry, in terms of both the accolades its national cinema garnered at international festivals, as well as the unusually high number of foreign movies shot on location within its borders.

Victorina López Hilario greeted with elation the news that she had won the 2015 installment of Mexico’s National Science and Arts Award in the subcategory of Popular Arts and Traditions. “I’m 42 and I’ve been struggling since I was 16,” she told reporters upon receiving the distinction.

Twenty-five years after its debut in Buenos Aires’ Luna Park stadium, Pepe Cibrián Campoy and Ángel Mahler’s musical rendition of Bram Stoker’s iconic novel Dracula is set to make another run.

“A work of fiction it is not, but it begins and ends by offering the reader the story of two brothers with names invented for the occasion, both of whose lives revolved around political militancy, armed struggle, the Chilean path to socialism, and exile.” Cristián Pérez’s new book Cerca de la revolución is not exactly

Peruvian poet Willy Gómez Migliario was the winner of the fifth edition of the Poetry Festival of Lira, an event which took place in Cuenca and which involved over 80 writers from 13 countries. His book, Construcción Civil, a work that took over 10 years to complete and for which the author traveled extensively throughout

The second Latin American Conference of Lived Communal Culture in El Salvador “seeks to create a common space among the countries that make up the region.”

Mexican novelist Fernando del Paso expressed grateful surprise upon learning that he had won this year’s edition of the coveted Cervantes Award. An unexpected garland in the hat of the 80-year-old writer, the award has only been bestowed on five other Mexicans in the entirety of its history.

The first book that legendary Peruvian poet César Vallejo ever published was his bachelor’s thesis: Romanticism in Castilian Poetry. Defended at the University de la Libertad on September 22, 1915, the 23-year-old’s opera prima received a high marks, according to the September 24th edition of La Reforma newspaper.

As novelist and poet Giaconda Belli recently observed, Nicaraguan journalism has lost an “irreplaceable” member of its profession, a figure who brought commitment, courage, and the highest standards of integrity to his vocation.

Juan José Campanella was twenty-four years old when he first saw Herb Gardner’s play I’m Not Rappaport on Broadway. After repeating the experience twice, he decided to adapt it for the screen, given that he regarded it as a play whose idiosyncrasies would resonate with an Argentine audience, perhaps even more powerfully than with an