The search for identity and belonging is also a motif for the human condition of the twentieth century-a century defined by displacements and migrati… - Marjorie Agosín

At times of great political repression, literature acquires a powerful function: It legitimizes artistic expression in a totalitarian society whose government prohibits this expression. Women writers, through their words and stories, manage to reaffirm what the greater society has denied. Paradoxically, if patriarchal societies have historically denied the presence of women writers, and also those who write about politics, the existence of extreme conditions due to political and civil violence has allowed these women writers to create and through their texts become visible.

Spanish is not only the language of my soul, but it’s the language of the memory, of my emotions, the first language I began to write and to think in.

Books unite people and books in translation are the thresholds of other cultures, invitations to travel and to know others.