Latin America's women writers ride wave of acclaim

Mexican writer Margo Glantz (right) receives the Carlos Fuentes medal from Mexican journalist Silvia Lemus on the second day of the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico on Nov 28. Photo: AFP

From Uruguay to Mexico, Argentina to Ecuador, women writers from across Latin America are enjoying growing acclaim after years of marginalisation by an industry they say has long favoured male authors.

They reject the label of a new "Latin American boom" like the one that thrust male writers such as Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa and Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.