Listen Online: New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming

From LC:

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which was celebrated from September 15 to October 15, the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE) has released a new batch of unpublished recordings from the PALABRA Archive for online streaming.

The PALABRA Archive is a collection of audio recordings of 20th and 21st century poets and writers from Luso-Hispanic and U.S. Latino communities reading from their works. The collection now has now close to 900 recordings and continues to grow with new recordings by contemporary authors. Adding in the audios from this release, close to 650 recordings from this repository will be available digitally.

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The newly released batch includes sessions both from the early years of the archive (1950s and 60s) to those recorded more recently. It highlights authors from sixteen countries with a special focus on Spain, including recordings that were done during a recording trip to Madrid and Barcelona in 2018. These include recordings with the late Almudena Grandes, one of Spain’s towering figures and the author of Las edades de Lulú (1989) (The Ages of Lulu); the novelist and journalist Rosa Montero; award-winning poet Luis García Montero, and the prominent Catalan authors Jaume Cabré and Carme Riera.

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Click here to see the complete list of newly available recordings. We hope you enjoy our new digital treasures!

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