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ABOUT
OUR
STORY
Un Nuevo Sol was founded in 2020 and has reached hundreds of thousands of readers and live audiences around the world.
It is rooted in community: local, national and international. Our aim is to build bridges through innovative and bold events, publications, cross-arts films, collaborations and translation.
We have worked with a range of partners including the Roundhouse, Southbank Centre, the Poetry Translation Centre, Magma Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT), schools, Letras Latinas & more.
We bring together British Latinx/Latine writers, Latin American and Latinx writers, uniting the three continents in a wonderful celebration of Latin Spirit.
Directors: Nathalie Teitler, Leo Boix
Associate Directors: Karina Lickorish Quinn, Mónica Ibarra Parle
TREATMENTS
OUR HISTORY
19th Century Arrival of first wave of Latin American immigrants.
1970s Significant influx of Latin Americans from Argentina and Chile, followed by Mexican,
Peruvian, Ecuadorean, Venezuelan and more over the following decades.
2000 First Latin American community and development
organisations: LAWRS, PRAXIS -Salvador Allende community
group and writers’ groups.
Bi-lingual anthology of Latin American writers in the UK
published by Praxis (edited by Nathalie Teitler)
2013 Further Spanish language groups – SLAP (Spanish and Latin American Poetry group.
Small group of writers in Spanish)
2014 Miguel Cullen publishes Wave Caps (Odilo)-Times LiterarySupplement Book of the Year
Marina Sanchez publishes Dragon Child (Acumen press)
2017 Miguel Cullen publishes Paranoid Narcissism, Evening Standard Book of the Year
Leo Boix begins to publish reviews of Latin American books in translation in the
Morning Star (still ongoing)
2018 Luiza Sauma publishes Flesh, Bone and Water to widespread critical acclaim
Invisible Presence
Leo Boix and Nathalie Teitler run an ACE funded community based writing group for
British Latinx and Latin American writers. Culminates in a sold out bi-lingual event at
the Roundhouse London.
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2018/last-word-2018-/estamos-presente/
https://shorturl.at/2TaoV
2018-2022 FLAWA community-based festival celebrating Latin American
women across arts forms, including literature. NT takes part
twice on behalf of Un Nuevo Sol (with Karina Liquorish Quinn
and other NSol writers)
2018- ongoing Latin Spanish Book and Zine Fair: literature festival aimed at
Spanish speaking audience (Un Nuevo SOL takes part 3 years)
2019 Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers anthology (flipped eye) 1st major anthology of
British Latinx writers, receives international coverage and acclaim (reviewed in World Literature Today, The Statesman and others)
Described by Bernardine Evaristo as a significant force in global literature
https://flippedeye.net/product/un-nuevo-sol-british-latinx-writers/
International distribution. Reviews in World Literature Today and coverage in the New
Statesman and Guardian, La Tundra, Sage Academic journal, University of South
Carolina, Notre Dame, PEN, Washington Post.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09213740231180262
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/07/new-york-latino-feels-home-
latinx-community-searching-its-identity-london/
Sold out event at the Southbank, London plus intnl online events.
Yara Rodriguez Fowler published Stubborn Archivist nominated for Sunday Times Young
Writer of the Year
Juana Adcock publishes Split (Blue Diode), PBS Choice. Highly commended at 2020
Forward Poetry Prize
2019 – present Un Nuevo Sol runs literary salons for networking, sharing of Work. For British Latinx
writers of all genres and global majority writers also invited to attend.
2020 Luiza Sauma publishes Everything You Ever Wanted, shortlisted for Encore award.
Nikki Aguirre publishes Terminal Romance (flipped eye)
Kat Lockton publishes Paper Doll (flipped eye)
Magma Resistencia (Un Nuevo Sol) Launch at the Tate. First journal to combine UK
Latinx, US Latinx, Latin American poets and poets inspired by Latin American themes.
Edited by Leo Boix and Nathalie Teitler
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/magma-issue-launch
2021 Karina Liquorish Quinn publishes The Dust Never Setttles (One World) to international
critical acclaim
Leo Boix publishes Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto and Windus) becoming the
first British Latinx poet to publish with a major UK publisher. The book wins the Wild
Card Choice by the PBS and is selected as one of the best five poetry books
by The Guardian in Aug 2021
Monica Radojevic publishes Teeth in the Back of my Neck (poetry) Winner of the
Merky Books award
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera publishes Night of the World (The 87 Press) Poetic novel
Yvette Siegert wins inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize, Bloodaxe.
Maia Elsner publishes Overrun by Wild Boars (flipped eye)
Monica Parle shortlisted for Wasafiri Queen Mary Prize & Bridport Peggy Champman
First Novel Award,
October, 2021 Un Nuevo Sol event at Cheltenham Literature Festival. Leo Boix, Patrizia Longhitano and
Juana Adcock, hosted by Bernardine Evaristo.
October,2021 Un Nuevo Sol presents British Latinx poets at the Spanish Book and zine Fair
https://www.latundra.com/londonspanishbookfair2021/
2022 Monica Parle wins 2022 Mslexia Short Story Prize
Jessica Gaitan Johannessen publishes novel How We are Translated (Scribe)
Andres Nicolas Ordorica publishes At Least This I know
(404 Ink)
Un Nuevo Sol begins major collaborations with Notre Dame University, United States,
The Writers Centre United States and Letras Latinas begins with interviews,
collaborations, publications
https://writer.org/curated-conversations-a-latinx-poetry-show/
https://latinostudies.nd.edu/news-events/events/2023/04/25/curated-conversation-s-
a-latinx-poetry-show-season-2-episode-2/
May, 2022 Un Nuevo Sol at FLAWA festival, Rich Mix
Nathalie Teitler, Karina Liquorish Quinn
https://flawafestival.co.uk/event/talk-forging-new-literary-paths-a-conversation-
with-carolina-orlof-cristina-bendek-nathalie-teitler/
2022-23 Roundhouse schools project with Un Nuevo Sol
Leo Boix works with St Gabriels’ School and a Camden school where the majority of
students are Latinx
2022-24 The Bridge
Un Nuevo Sol offers over 2 years of international online literature workshops free to any
global majority writer, focusing on global majority tutors with British Latinx and US
based Latinx tutors. This reaches thousands of writers during the COVID epidemic,
illustrating how an online collective can function & embedding British Latinx writers
within a larger context.
Bridge of Fire
Un Nuevo Sol commissions the first ever extensive UK and US Latinx collaborations in
poetry with an online reading, publications and short cross-arts films with visual artists
from Latin America.
And a sold-out Southbank event to celebrate the short cross -arts films made.
This is the first time that the three points- Latin America, US Latinx and British Latinx
have been combined to create innovative art. One of the hallmarks of Un Nuevo Sol.
Excerpts of the commissioned collaborations are published in Granta magazine.
Online celebratory reading covered by international journal Asymptote
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/writer/leo-boix/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGua3HS0Jg4
2023. Un Nuevo Sol present cross arts literature films at Winchester
Literature Festival
Un Nuevo Sol presents LGBTQ event at the London Spanish Book and Zine festival
2024 Andres Nicolas Ordorica publishes How We Named the Stars
(Tin House) Receives international praise and reviews
Listed as one of the Observer’s 10 best debut novelists
Leo Boix wins PEN translator of the year award
Juana Adcock publishes a translation of The Route by Laura Wittner (Bloodaxe)
Marina Sanchez publishes Mexica Mix (Verve)
Wet Grain publishes first issue of British Latinx poetry In partnership with Un Nuevo Sol
Tangled Tongues bi-lingual community literature group hosts event in partnership
with Un Nuevo Sol
Community based film ‘The Box’, raising the profile of British Latinx community
launched by Ana Torre in partnership with Un Nuevo Sol
Un Nuevo Sol offers consultancy advice to RAP party (placing performance poets),
Musico, Musica (looking for Latinx poets), PTC, Southbank, MPT, Latin Actors UK and
many more.
March, 2024 Writing Ourselves Visible, Literary Leicester Festival
Un Nuevo Sol writers, Karina Liquorish Quinn, Leo Boix and Gael Le Cornec
July, 2024 The Forensic and The Fantastic: Latinx poets at the British
Library. PTC in collaboration with Writers Mosaic and Un
Nuevo Sol
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/event/the-forensic-and-the-fantastic-latinx-poets/
Latinx Showcases PTC , Ledbury Poetry Festival, the British Library, Un Nuevo Sol,
Latin America House and the University of San Andrés;
September, 2024. V & A East event In Between: Latinx takeover
Artists, DJs and performers including Un Nuevo Sol Britisih Latinx writers
https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/whats-on/inbetween-latinx-takeover-va-
east
2025 Monika Radojevic to publish A Beautiful Lack of Consequences
(short stories) On the Sunday Times list of books to read in
2025
Leo Boix publishes Hemisferio Cuir (February) with 14 Poems
First bilingual anthology of LGBTQ poets from Latin America
19th March Un Nuevo Sol presents an evening of Latinx poetry with Patrick Romero Maccaferty, Leo
Boix, Sim Perreira and Patrizia Longhitano at Hundred Years Gallery.
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