November 30th, 2015 – The Istituto Italo-Latino Americano (IILA) presents the 8th edition of “América Latina Tierra de Libros” – an annual event with Latin American literature – at the national exhibition of small and medium publishing companies Più Libri Più Liberi, which takes place in Rome from December 4-8. The event is organized in collaboration with the embassies of the IILA member countries: Argentina, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. “América Latina Tierra de Libros” will host six writers from 5 different Latin American countries and will be entitled “Los libros abiertos de América Latina”, paraphrasing the work of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, who recently passed away. There will be Hernán Ronsino (Argentina), Alejandro Zambra (Chile), Ondina Zea (Honduras), Julian Herbert (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico) and the Nobel Prize Literature Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), by videoconference from Madrid The writers will take part in meetings on literature and the contemporary Latin American reality, comparing their different literary and stylistic experiences.
