Who are some good Latin American writers, other than the obvious

Anyone? I really want to read more Latin American Boom and Post-Boom writers, but don't know who to read. I would've thought there are lots of good and okay Latin American writers out there, possibly household names in some countries.

Check out The Art of Flight by Sergio Pitol and Between Parentheses by Bolano. These two books will have you swimming in great authors

Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso, Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector

Jaime Bayly
Alejandro Jodorowski
Guadalupe Nettel

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This guy has some books (all short novellas) translated into English, and had decent odds in betting sites during the last literature nobel prize, he was a serious condidate.


What Bolaño said

“I am told that César Aira writes two books a year, at least, some of which are published by a little Argentinean company named Beatriz Viterbo, after the character in Borges's story "The Aleph." The books of his that I have been able to find were published by Mondadori and and Tusquets Argentina. It's frustrating, because once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop. His novels seem to put the theories of Gombrowicz into practice, except, and the difference is fundamental, that Gombrowicz was the abbot of a luxurious imaginary monastery, while Aira is a nun or novice among the Discalced Carmelites of the Word. Sometimes he is reminiscent of Roussel (Roussel on his knees in a bath red with blood), but the only living writer to whom he can be compared is Barcelona's Enrique Vila-Matas.

Aira is an eccentric, but he is also one of the three or four best writers working in Spanish today.”


It seems like he has a gimmick of writing without planing the plot.
http://idiommag.com/2012/04/flying-forward-with-cesar-aira/

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Donoso and Puig definitely. Bioy Casares if you want a dryer Borges.
Juan Carlos Onetti is one of my favourite authors. He wrote some very beautiful pessimistic novels, A Brief Life being his best, and a lot of good short stories which remind me of Faulkner and O'Connor.
Felisberto Hernandez is another favourite, he's a lot more playful and enigmatic, like a weird amalgamation of Robert Walser and Proust (the latter only because his narratives are often concerned with how our memories intrude upon and influence our present actions or thoughts).
Alejo Carpentier is like an explosion of colour and sound, a maximalist in scope and variety. His descriptions can sometimes go on for pages and one becomes almost delirious with the amount of detail he produces. His novels are in the same order as GGM in that they are mostly concerned with the inevitable mixture of the sensual with the political, social and cultural. A good place to start with him is his short story "Road to Santiago" or his short novel The Kingdom of this World.
Another good one is Ernesto Sábato, but I think right now he's like a semi-meme. Also Álvaro Mutis' Maqroll novels are very good.