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….

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 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….

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

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..

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

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….

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

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 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..

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….

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

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

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….