Mario Vargas Llosa said that the literary world in Spanish are integrated in one world, “not on islands cut off from each other” through the Spanish literary agent Carmen Balcells, who died last September at age 85 old.
“Carmen Balcells was essential for Spain publishers in Latin America, overturning market opening and were integrating a world that was an archipelago,” said the Peruvian writer during a ceremony in NY.
Mario Vargas Llosa recalled that when he had to read “Don Quixote” at age 15, the attempt to understand the work “was a total failure.”
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” Thanks to her in a way the literary world of our language was becoming one world, not on islands cut off from each other, “said the Nobel Prize for Literature.
For Vargas Llosa, author of works such as’ La Festa del Chivo ‘or’ The City and the Perros’-, as well as other renowned writers in Latin America, as well as prizes Nobel Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Pablo Neruda, Balcells was responsible for supporting and promoting them in the Spanish publishing and launch their careers.
“Many Latin American authors owe being known in Spain thanks to the tremendous efforts he did. He had no literary training but a wonderful instinct of reading,” said the writer on Balcells .
Vargas Llosa spoke during a chat with the Peruvian writer Alonso Cueto public City College of New York, and served as the closing of a seminar organized by the Chair literature Mario Vargas Llosa center.
Considered the architect of the “boom” literary Latin, Balcells -born in the town of Santa Fe de Dalt, in the province of Lerida began a career in the publishing world that led RBA to create the agency and represent up to 300 writers, including six Nobel prizes.
integrating Latin American literature, and the authors have got Mto Vargas Llosa, Balcells eliminated the “provincialism” that was in the Spanish publishing world, suggesting the Spanish language as a “big market” as rights.
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