Mundo Nuevo

French periodical

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Mundo Nuevo was a Spanish-language literary journal published in Paris. Between 1966 and 1968, Emir Rodr\u00edguez Monegal served as its editor. The journal brought international attention to writers who became known as the "boom of the Latin American novel," including Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Rodr\u00edguez Monegal's tenure as editor ended in 1968 due to a political scandal involving allegations that the journal received funding from the CIA.1

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Emir Rodríguez Monegal
…Rodríguez Monegal was editor of Mundo Nuevo, a Spanish-language literary journal published in Paris that brought international attention to the writers who made up what came to be known as the “boom of the Latin American novel”: Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, and others. He…
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…Rodríguez Monegal was editor of Mundo Nuevo, a Spanish-language literary journal published in Paris that brought international attention to the writers who made up what came to be known as the “boom of the Latin American novel”: Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, and others. He…
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Severo Sarduy
He was also involved with Mundo Nuevo, a Spanish-language journal directed by Uruguayan critic Emir Rodríguez Monegal. Through these journals and his considerable production, Sarduy acquired a good deal of fame, even though he was systematically ignored by the Cuban cultural bureaucracy, who never mentioned him in their publications and…
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He was also involved with Mundo Nuevo, a Spanish-language journal directed by Uruguayan critic Emir Rodríguez Monegal. Through these journals and his considerable production, Sarduy acquired a good deal of fame, even though he was systematically ignored by the Cuban cultural bureaucracy, who never mentioned him in their publications and…
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