Fernanda Melchor

2 months ago | floodmagazine.com | Fernanda Melchor |Mike LeSuer

On 2020’s Stray, Bambara proved their proficiency in post-punk, blues-punk, cow-punk, goth-punk, and really any other variety of punk that shapes the raw passion of the genre into aesthetic cosplay all while vocalist Reid Bateh flexed his narrative writing skills over top of all that carefully constructed noise.

Jun 17, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Fernanda Melchor |Mario Martz

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Mar 27, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Rodrigo Calderón |Fernanda Melchor |Sophie Hughes |Claudia Piñeiro

When last year’s Booker Prize longlist was announced, many people observed that having four Irish writers on the list must mean that Ireland is experiencing a new literary golden age. But when the prize’s eventual winner Paul Lynch was asked why Ireland seemed to be producing the best writers, he answered: ‘Can I let you into a secret? I think the South Americans have the best writers.

Dec 2, 2023 | quicktelecast.com | Fernanda Melchor |Gary Indiana

Ann PatchettI'll be wrapping & Earth Grocery Store (Orion), a novel that takes place at the intersection of the Black and Jewish communities, which turns out to be a grocery store. This is James McBride (always fabulous) at his very best. The second book I'll give is by Alice McDermott, who has always been one of our greatest writers, but Absolution (Bloomsbury) exceeds every expectation. It is one of the finest modern novels I've read, a moral masterpiece.

Nov 3, 2023 | thebookerprizes.substack.com | Fernanda Melchor |Sophie Hughes

Hurricane Season is the second novel by Mexican author Fernanda Melchor and was her first to be published in English, in 2020, after it was translated by Sophie Hughes. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize that year, it is a brutal, affecting novel of a society in crisis. Ostensibly a murder mystery, it is also a powerful examination of poverty, misogyny, corruption and machismo culture.