Horacio Castellanos Moya

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Horacio Castellanos Moya is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as a journalist in Mexico, Guatemala, and his own country. He has published ten novels, five short story collections and two books of essays. He was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh (2006-2008). In 2009, he was a guest researcher at the University of Tokyo. Currently he teaches at the University of Iowa.

The Nightmare of the Entertainment Society
by Horacio Castellanos Moya / July 19, 2012

In this week’s Corkscrew novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya reviews The Civilization of Entertainment, a collection of essays by Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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From Honduras to Paraguay
by Horacio Castellanos Moya / July 5, 2012

In this week’s Corkscrew writer Horacio Castellanos Moya compares the recent impeachment of Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo to the ousting of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, and asks “Who’s next?”
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