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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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….

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'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….

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

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 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….

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..

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

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….