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Saramago is NOT a Latinx author. He's portuguese.

Ana || portuguese_bookaholic wrote: "Saramago is NOT a Latinx author. He's portuguese."


Thanks for catching that. Goodreads, in their infinite wisdom, has not granted me the ability to delete titles from Listopias, so hopefully a GR Librarian will see this and delete it from this list!

Nadine wrote: "Ana || portuguese_bookaholic wrote: "Saramago is NOT a Latinx author. He's portuguese."


Thanks for catching that. Goodreads, in their infinite wisdom, has not granted me the ability to delete tit..."

Let's hope they do!! :)

Book Blindness by José Saramago has been deleted from this list 😁

BookLovingLady wrote: "Book Blindness by José Saramago has been deleted from this list 😁"



I can always count on you to clean up the Listopias!!! Thanks :-)

Nadine in NY wrote: "BookLovingLady wrote: "Book Blindness by José Saramago has been deleted from this list 😁"



I can always count on you to clean up the Listopias!!! Thanks :-)"

it's back on the list, at #31

Gigi wrote: "Nadine in NY wrote: "BookLovingLady wrote: "Book Blindness by José Saramago has been deleted from this list 😁"



I can always count on you to clean up the Listopia..."


People are persistent!! This is a good reminder to always double check anything you find on a Listopia :-)

Gigi wrote: "it's back on the list, at #31."

I removed it. Hopefully, it won't come back again.

Isabel Allende, Gabriel García Márquez and Laura Esquival aren't Latinx either - Chilean, Colombian and Mexican respectively.

Also Pablo Neruda - Chilean, not American of Latin origin.

Doug wrote: "Isabel Allende, Gabriel García Márquez and Laura Esquival aren't Latinx either - Chilean, Colombian and Mexican respectively."


Doug - They are all Latinx. Latinx means "a person of Latin American origin or descent" and Latin America is that part of the Americas previously colonized by the Spanish, Portuguese and French, so basically everything from Mexico on south. Anyone in or from Chile, Colombia, or Mexico would be Latinx. But people from Spain or Portugal are NOT Latinx, they are European.

Nadine in NY wrote: "Latinx means "a person of Latin American origin or descent" and Latin America is that part of the Americas previously colonized by the Spanish, Portuguese and French, so basically everything from Mexico on south."
Thanks Nadine. I'm puzzled by this though. I was also working with the definition being "of Latin Am origin/descent" and when we say "of xxx origin/descent" it doesn't typically include the people actually from those countries. For example, Jhumpa Lahiri is an American writer of Indian origin/descent (born in the UK, grew up in the US, parents Indian), whereas Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer. Right? Going with your interpretation of "Anyone in or from" "everything from Mexico on south" would be the same as "A Book By a Latin American Author", and surely the term "Latinx" has been coined to describe something different. Also, your interpretation would exclude other authors on the list above - for example, Sandra Cisneros, who I personally would have imagined very much matched with the intended meaning of Latinx, isn't 'in or from' any of those countries. I believe she lives in Texas and is from Illinois, her parents Mexican, i.e. she's an American of Latin American origin/descent.

Nadine in NY wrote: "But people from Spain or Portugal are NOT Latinx, they are European."
Indeed. I didn't say they were ;)

Doug wrote: "Nadine in NY wrote: "Latinx means "a person of Latin American origin or descent" and Latin America is that part of the Americas previously colonized by the Spanish, Portuguese and French, so basica..."


Perhaps these terms used in the US are used in a different way in other places.

"Latinx" doesn't refer only to people currently living in the USA, it includes people who are in Latin America who are of Latin American descent. In your example, yes Sandra Cisneros is American of Mexican descent, so she is Latinx. Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy would both be considered Asian.