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Gene Bell-Villada is an American literary critic, novelist, translator and memoirist. His book Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
An interview with the Colombian novelist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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