Entre Rios Trilogy

Perla Suez is the author of award-winning children's fiction. The Entre Rios Trilogy brings together her first three novels written for adults. Perla Suez has been Director of Cedilij (Center for Research and Diffusion of Children and Youngsters Literature). She was finalist for the Romulo Gallegos Award as well as finalist for the Grinzane Cavour Literary Award in 2005. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Louisville, and the recipient of a 2006 NEA Literary Translation Fellowship. In 2000, she received the U of L Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, and in 2004, she was named the recipient of the U of L Trustees Award. She is the author of numerous critical studies on the narrative fiction of contemporary Latin American writers, and has translated the works of several Latin American writers, including Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Ana Maria Shua, and Perla Suez. In the summer of 2004, she received an award to participate in a three-week residency program at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre in Banff, Canada. She is the recipient of a 2006 NEA Literary Translation Fellowship.

""The Entre Rios Trilogy" is . . . a literary exploration of the heart and soul of immigrants and outcasts, a meditation on the consequences of intolerance and injustice, and a paean to the perseverance of the human spirit." "This is a superb account of women's lives that are important in their public obscurity, and Buchanan's translation is flawless." ""The Entre Rios Trilogy" is..a literary exploration of the heart and soul of immigrants and outcasts, a meditation on the consequences of intolerance and injustice, and a paean to the perseverance of the human spirit."