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Free Thinking: Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm

Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm

25/05/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm

Philip Dodd explores Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.

Philip Dodd explores Latin America as seen by historian Eric Hobsbawm, and discusses the subject with authors Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro. Plus Brazil's plutocrats.

Prize winning Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Argentinian playwright, journalist and leading crime writer Claudia Pineiro join Philip Dodd for a programme exploring fiction and fact in Latin America. There's also journalist Alex Cuadros who chronicles his years covering the rise and fall of Brazil's plutocrats. And a consideration of Eric Hobsbawm's Viva La Revolucion from Dr Oscar Guardiola-Rivera from Birkbeck College in London.


Claudia Pineiro's most recent thriller is called Betty Boo, translated by Miranda France.
Vásquez won the 2014 International Dublin Literary Award, for The Sound of Things Falling and his most recent book to be translated by Anne McLean is Reputations.
Brazillionaires is by Alex Cuadros 
40 years of writing about Latin America is brought together posthumously in Eric Hobsbawm's Viva La Revolucion
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of What If Latin America Ruled the World?


Producer: Ruth Watts.

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