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Julio Villanueva ChangJulio Villanueva Chang is the founding director of Etiqueta Negra.He is the author of Butterflies and Bats and winner of the Interamerican Press Association Award (IAPA) in feature writing.His work has appeared in El País Semanal, La Vanguardia, Letras Libres, La Nación, Reforma, Gatopardo, Vogue, El Malpensante, and World Literature Today.

(Knight Center) Peruvian journalist Julio Villanueva Chang, founding editor of Etiqueta Negra magazine, discusses his view of "la crónica"-a genre that has no precise translation in English but corresponds to narrative storytelling.

Chang describes "la crónica" as an eccentric genre that attempts to translate the world for readers. "I want a reader to care the same as me," he says.

Published by Planeta Peru, the book will be co-presented by Julio Villanueva Chang, editor of excellent Etiqueta Negra Magazine, novelist Ivan Thays, and Guillermo Giacosa, renowned Argentinean-born journalist.

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Julio Villanueva Chang

Julio Villanueva Chang is the founding director of Etiqueta Negra.He is the author of Butterflies and Bats and winner of the Interamerican Press Association Award (IAPA) in feature writing.His work has appeared in El País Semanal, La Vanguardia, Letras Libres, La Nación, Reforma, Gatopardo, Vogue, El Malpensante, and World Literature Today.
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Julio Villanueva Chang

The magazine, directed and created by journalist Julio Villanueva Chang, received last march a much favourable review by the San Francisco Chronicle.

But while they were searching for an editorial director, a friend of a friend put them in touch with longtime Peruvian journalist Julio Villanueva Chang, who had something else in mind.

"I pulled out a copy of the New Yorker and said, 'Let's do something like this,' " remembers Chang, who had a background in Peruvian newspaper journalism that felt too limiting.After the two brothers stared blankly at the New Yorker magazine and its stories with few photographs or graphics, Chang explained that the Peruvian interpretation would, of course, be more colorful and picturesque.A small sigh of relief followed, along with a green light.

Unlike much U.S. culture that gets lost in translation by the time it reaches Latin America, Chang understood that the inspiration from the New Yorker was merely a starting point.

"Many people still tell me the magazine doesn't feel Peruvian," the magazine's editor, Julio Villanueva Chang, told the New York Times.

(Knight Center) Peruvian journalist Julio Villanueva Chang, founding editor of Etiqueta Negra magazine, discusses his view of "la crónica"-a genre that has no precise translation in English but corresponds to narrative storytelling. Chang describes "la crónica" as an eccentric genre that attempts to translate the world for readers. "I want a reader to care the same as me," he says. [..]