Salvadoran Horacio Castellanos Moya has been selected for the two-year City of Asylum residency in Pittsburgh. From the (pdf) press release:
Born in 1957, Castellanos Moya is the author of eight novels, five short story collec-tions and one book of essays. He studied history and literature at the University of El Salvador and at York University in Toronto, Canada, and worked as a journalist in Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. As editor-in-chief of the weekly independent newspaper Primera Plana, he investigated links between El Salvador’s political and military rightist leaders and organized crime. In 1997, Castellanos Moya published El Asco: Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador, a novel exposing the political crimes of the ruling forces, including the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero, and criticizing sensitive political and cultural aspects of Salvadoran life. As a result, he received anonymous death threats and fearing for his life, went into exile.
Moya will be teaching a readings course at Pitt next fall, tentatively titled “Latin American Literature: Post Magical-Realism.” Which (damn!) conflicts with my schedule.
