StephenHenighan
@stephenhenighan.bsky.social
Novelist-Short Story Writer-Translator-Journalist-Prof of Spanish American literature // www.stephenhenighan.com
Festeja-se hoje o 50º aniversário da independência de Angola. Um momento para admiração e reflexão.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Festeja-se hoje o 50º aniversário da independência de Angola. Um momento para admiração e reflexão.
Very pleased to receive a visit from my MP @orourkeguelph.bsky.social to help me promote my novel *The World of After* ( @cormorantbooks.bsky.social) --my bestselling title of the day-- at today's Book Bash in #Guelph, @downtownguelph.bsky.social.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Very pleased to receive a visit from my MP @orourkeguelph.bsky.social to help me promote my novel *The World of After* ( @cormorantbooks.bsky.social) --my bestselling title of the day-- at today's Book Bash in #Guelph, @downtownguelph.bsky.social.
Chega em Abril 2026: *Fissured Ground: National History in Angolan Fiction, Origins to Independence*.
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Chega em Abril 2026: *Fissured Ground: National History in Angolan Fiction, Origins to Independence*.
For more on Sergio Ramírez.
October 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For more on Sergio Ramírez.
Here's the novel for which the Nicaraguan novelist Sergio Ramírez just won the semi-annual Vargas Llosa Prize. It was a pleasure to have him sign my copy of *El caballo dorado* in his Madrid apartment last December.
October 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Here's the novel for which the Nicaraguan novelist Sergio Ramírez just won the semi-annual Vargas Llosa Prize. It was a pleasure to have him sign my copy of *El caballo dorado* in his Madrid apartment last December.
You don't make this kind of renovation to your house unless you're planning to live there for a good long time.
October 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
You don't make this kind of renovation to your house unless you're planning to live there for a good long time.
Petro tells Trump to read *One Hundred Years of Solitude* to overcome his ignorance of Colombia. This is reminiscent of the moment when Chávez responded to GW Bush w/ an allusion from *Doña Bárbara* and Bush and all his Latin American advisers missed the allusion.
October 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Petro tells Trump to read *One Hundred Years of Solitude* to overcome his ignorance of Colombia. This is reminiscent of the moment when Chávez responded to GW Bush w/ an allusion from *Doña Bárbara* and Bush and all his Latin American advisers missed the allusion.
Feliz cumpleaños número 151, Miguel Ángel Asturias. *Leyendas de Guatemala, *El Señor Presidente*, *Hombres de maíz*, *Mulata de tal* y otros siguen siendo fuentes inagotables de riqueza.
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Feliz cumpleaños número 151, Miguel Ángel Asturias. *Leyendas de Guatemala, *El Señor Presidente*, *Hombres de maíz*, *Mulata de tal* y otros siguen siendo fuentes inagotables de riqueza.
Lazer Lederhendler's superb translation of Christophe Bernard's novel (edited by SH @biblioasis.bsky.social), won the French-American Foundation Prize for translation & the Governor General's Award for Translation. A delight to see it as a finalist for Quebec Writers Association Awards.
October 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Lazer Lederhendler's superb translation of Christophe Bernard's novel (edited by SH @biblioasis.bsky.social), won the French-American Foundation Prize for translation & the Governor General's Award for Translation. A delight to see it as a finalist for Quebec Writers Association Awards.
Very pleased to see an Angolan woman, Ana Paula Tavares, win the Camões Prize, given to a writer of Portuguese for their life's work. Tavares, best known as a poet, is the fifth African and second Angolan to win the Camões.
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Very pleased to see an Angolan woman, Ana Paula Tavares, win the Camões Prize, given to a writer of Portuguese for their life's work. Tavares, best known as a poet, is the fifth African and second Angolan to win the Camões.
Today is Pub Day for *Europolis*!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
September 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Today is Pub Day for *Europolis*!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
While Trump is murdering Venezuelans on the high seas, five of the world's ten most dangerous cities are in Ecuador, whose right-wing, pro-Trump government now supplies the USA with the plurality of its drugs.
September 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
While Trump is murdering Venezuelans on the high seas, five of the world's ten most dangerous cities are in Ecuador, whose right-wing, pro-Trump government now supplies the USA with the plurality of its drugs.
Canadá y México tienen que aprender todo lo que tienen en común. Canada and Mexico must learn all they have in common.
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Canadá y México tienen que aprender todo lo que tienen en común. Canada and Mexico must learn all they have in common.
Unamuno: "You cure fascism by reading and you cure racism by travelling."
September 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Unamuno: "You cure fascism by reading and you cure racism by travelling."
People in my hotel are speaking an incomprehensible language.... At last I see that it's WELSH!
August 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
People in my hotel are speaking an incomprehensible language.... At last I see that it's WELSH!
I was shocked to learn that in South America only Bolivia has a birthrate above the replacement level of 2.1.
August 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I was shocked to learn that in South America only Bolivia has a birthrate above the replacement level of 2.1.
José Rubén Zamora spends a fourth consecutive birthday behind bars in Guatemala for the crime of reporting on corruption. Where is Western support for this admirable man?
August 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
José Rubén Zamora spends a fourth consecutive birthday behind bars in Guatemala for the crime of reporting on corruption. Where is Western support for this admirable man?
Since Greyhound's departure from Canada, a patchwork of companies have taken over Central Canadian bus routes. My first experience w/ #Megabus was a disaster: no bus, the replacement bus was too small for the number of tickets sold, we left 40 minutes late.
August 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Since Greyhound's departure from Canada, a patchwork of companies have taken over Central Canadian bus routes. My first experience w/ #Megabus was a disaster: no bus, the replacement bus was too small for the number of tickets sold, we left 40 minutes late.
Today I presented at the International Comparative Literature Association Congress.
July 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Today I presented at the International Comparative Literature Association Congress.
No tally of the world's greatest bookstores should omit the Kyobo Book Centre in Seoul. It's utterly vast (this photo can't capture its size), mostly in Korean, but with a large, intelligently chosen English section containing lots of translations and literary press books.
July 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
No tally of the world's greatest bookstores should omit the Kyobo Book Centre in Seoul. It's utterly vast (this photo can't capture its size), mostly in Korean, but with a large, intelligently chosen English section containing lots of translations and literary press books.
This gets it right.
July 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This gets it right.
I almost forgot that today is Mia Couto's 70th birthday. Parabens! (Photo from Johannesburg, 2014).
July 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I almost forgot that today is Mia Couto's 70th birthday. Parabens! (Photo from Johannesburg, 2014).
Everywhere I go in #Kenya, the #Palestinian flag is flying. #GenocideinGaza is mainly about the victims, who are the Palestinians. But one consequence is that much of the world assumes Western assessments of human rights to be propagandistic and corrupt.
July 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Everywhere I go in #Kenya, the #Palestinian flag is flying. #GenocideinGaza is mainly about the victims, who are the Palestinians. But one consequence is that much of the world assumes Western assessments of human rights to be propagandistic and corrupt.