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[edit] Needs work

Pathetic article...

Agreed. Why not help expand it? zafiroblue05 | Talk 20:22, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Yup, this article is shamefully bad. In the meantime, however, I've created Category:Latin American literature to try and gather some resources together. (I've also been working on various subjects within Category:Latin American studies if anyone wants to help out with that.) --Jbmurray 10:11, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


El aleph (and other stories) is not a novel.

You're right (and you beat me to pointing it out:)). It's a collection of short stories. How about changing novels to books? Maw 18:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Links

NB one step forward would be to find ways to work in and link to the articles on Latin American literary movements such as indigenismo and McOndo found elsewhere in Category:Latin American literature. --Jbmurray 06:37, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] List of writers

I've slightly changed the definition for the list of writers: that they should be figures not mentioned in the article itself. Ideally, if an author is indeed prominent he or she should be mentioned in the article, so eventually we can dispense with the list altogether, which I think would be a great improvement given the proliferation of such lists elsewhere. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 13:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Rubbersoul20 (talk · contribs) keeps adding a long list of writers, which i have reverted. The main list of writers, List of Latin American writers, is better suited for his entry but user refuses to listen. Any thoughts from other contributers?  LaNicoya  •TALK• 22:19, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Third Opinion I don't think it's necessary to have another list on this article if List of Latin American writers already exists. It would be subject to constant reverting based on who is a *better representative* of Latin American literature. That's just my opinion though. Bulldog123 10:56, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I also don't think there should be a list on the article, as user:Jbmurray mentioned, only writers that will be incorporated into the article should be present. Or better yet, put the names on this talk page and when someone incorporates them, strike them out. I propose we do that, anyone in favor of removing the list from this article and posting the writers who Jbmurray had previously on the talk page to be incorporated later?  LaNicoya  •TALK• 11:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Right. It's better to have a sentence regarding the author then just put them in bullet form on this article. Bulldog123 10:00, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The previous list

Writers to be incorporated into the article.

Latin American winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature:

In addition to those named in this article, other prominent writers include:

[edit] Prominent writers list

I have included a list of 13 prominent latin american writers in the belief that such information will be invaluable to those who do not have a point of entry into the rich literature of latin america. Since few among us have the time or intellectual curiosity to read a list of 100+ writers, I believe it is useful to delimit the list of essential authors in this manner.

--Rubbersoul20 12:57, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

It is better to leave a list here on the talk page and have those writers be incorporated into the article. There is no need for a list here. If you want to add the hundreds of writers you had do it on the main page, List of Latin American writers.  LaNicoya  •TALK• 17:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Further reading" list

The "Further reading" list is way tooooo long, isn't it? I suggest keeping the 10-20 most important titles and dropping the rest. --Anna Lincoln 08:07, 13 November 2007 (UTC)