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

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..

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say..

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….

A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it eve….

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

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….

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

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….

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern..

The bond between parent and child is chemical, fierce, and inexplicable, even if that parent is a sworn killer. This connection cannot be measured; i….

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….