When I arrived in Spain more than twelve years ago, I knew that if I wanted to survive, I had to write. Only through writing could I make sense of things and find the strength to steer the cayuco of my own prose. The texts in Crónicas barbitrúricas…

Contemporary Venezuelan literature is largely the literature of migrant writers. For decades—and for various reasons—Venezuelan writers have sought to settle in various parts of the world, with the United States, Spain, and other Latin American…