Mundo Nuevo

For the Spanish illustrated magazine published 1894 to 1933, see Nuevo Mundo (magazine).

Mundo Nuevo (1966–1971, Spanish for "the New World") was an influential Spanish-language periodical, being a monthly revista de cultura (literary magazine) dedicated to new Latin American literature. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the magazine was founded by Emir Rodríguez Monegal in Paris, France, in 1966 and distributed worldwide. Monegal edited it until 1968 and resigned after a five-part installation in the New York Times that revealed the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a source of funding for the magazine, was a front for the CIA.[1] In fact, it was started as a successor of another Spanish language magazine of the Congress, namely Cuadernos.[2] Mundo Nuevo stopped in 1971 after 58 issues.

Mundo Nuevo prepublished then-new writers, such as Mario Vargas Llosa or chapters of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, famous poets such as Octavio Paz and younger writers, such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante or Severo Sarduy.[3] It contributed to the 1960s publishing phenomenon dubbed "The Boom" in Latin American literature.[4]

  1. ^ "The C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool? Agency Raises Questions Around World; Survey Discloses Strict Controls But Reputation of Agency Is Found to Make It a Burden on U.S. Action", New York Times, April 25, 1966, p. 1.
  2. ^ Greg Barnhisel (8 January 2017). "Finks, Fronts, and Puppets: Revisiting the Cultural Cold War". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. ^ Mundo Nuevo
  4. ^ Jaime Perales Contreras, "Octavio Paz y el círculo de la revista Mundo Nuevo" Estudios Magazine 112, October 2012:185-193