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Latin American Books: 2020 Highlights | Sounds and Colours


For me, 2020 was a big year of reading in translation. In a year where COVID-19 made us all stay at home, reading provided me with one way of avoiding my world being reduced to my flat. 2020 was also the year where big book festivals went online, for example, allowing me to ‘attend’ the Edinburgh Book Festival for the first time.
This year my Latin American reading took me to Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador. The list below represents a small selection of 10 Latin American reading highlights from 2020, collected from my own reading and the generous responses to a call-for-tips on Twitter. ....

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