How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support netwo….

Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything….

I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It's obviously the central tool of how I work, and how I keep in touch with all the writers and th….

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particu….

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that….

For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work..

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something diff….

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language..

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece..

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life..

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru..

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art..

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English..

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write co….

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, i….

I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a p….

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't..

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or anot….

I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im t….

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book..

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these….