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A poetic pilgrimage through Latin America
LEO BOIX talks to Richard Gwyn about Latin American poetry, translation and enduring literary friendships
(L) Clockwise from top L: Chilean poets Raul Zurita and Veronica Zondek; Mexican poet Daniel Samoilovich and Colombian poet Piedad Bonnett; (R) welsh poet and translator Richard Gwyn
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“WHEN I was 15, I read all of Che Guevara’s works,” says Richard Gwyn. “So, when I went to university, I was particularly interested in the anthropology of certain Latin American communities… There was a mix of different influences. Discovering Gabriel Garcia Marquez, of course, and Jorge Luis Borges… These things all contributed to a kind of fascination, which was slightly dreamy, based on ideas I didn't fully comprehend.”
That’s how Gwyn began his interest in Latin America as a student, leading him many years later to travel to that vast region in search of poets for a landmark anthology.
A first visit to the International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua, convinced him of the need to produce an anthology of recent poetry from Latin America, which eventually became The Other Tiger (Seren, 2016).
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