Marcelo Ballvé

Marcelo Ballvé was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1975. In 1982 he left with his family to live in Atlanta, Georgia. In the late 1980s he also lived in Caracas, Venezuela and Mexico City. He has a degree in history from Brown University and a journalism degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He worked as a journalist in Brazil and the Caribbean and now lives in Buenos Aires. He devotes himself to neogauchesque literature and metajournalism and occasionally publishes essays on books, music, art, cities and nature. He has a multilingual blog called Sancho's Panza where he very slowly digests readings and learnings.

Beyond Love: The Wisdom of Love in the Time of Cholera

Learning from Latin America’s Media Pirates

Living on the Margins

Literature is Inside of Life Just Like a Tree is Inside of Life

On Being Savage

Playing from the Hip

Delfin Quishpe: Ecuador’s Unlikely YouTube Celebrity

Blood Art from Africa?

Tom Zé: Brazilian Music Machine

The Resilient Works of Roberto Bolaño’s Raccoon-Resistant, Water Resistant, Immortal

Various Artists: Liberacion: Songs of the Cuban Underground [DVD]

On Revolutions, Civil War and Dictators: The Work of Ryszard Kapuscinski