StephenHenighan
@stephenhenighan.bsky.social
Novelist-Short Story Writer-Translator-Journalist-Prof of Spanish American literature // www.stephenhenighan.com
II wrote this @thetls.bsky.social in November 2005. I never thought I'd see my suspicions so unequivocally confirmed.
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
II wrote this @thetls.bsky.social in November 2005. I never thought I'd see my suspicions so unequivocally confirmed.
"Peace" means Israeli can keep killing 25-75 Palestinians a day without facing condemnation or resprisals.
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"Peace" means Israeli can keep killing 25-75 Palestinians a day without facing condemnation or resprisals.
Efraín Kristal, author of one of the best books on Vargas Llosa, and of a brilliant book on Borges and translation, dead at 66. Mi más sentido pésame. I once had the pleasure of meeting him, in Quebec City. He was both dazzling and modest.
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Efraín Kristal, author of one of the best books on Vargas Llosa, and of a brilliant book on Borges and translation, dead at 66. Mi más sentido pésame. I once had the pleasure of meeting him, in Quebec City. He was both dazzling and modest.
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.