Juan Octavio Prenz y Omar Lara promoters of literary flows: Latin America-Yugoslavia-Romania

Abstract

This article analyses the intellectual and literary activity carried out by poets Juan Octavio Prenz and Omar Lara as promoters both of Latin American literature in Central Europe -especially in Romania and Yugoslavia- and of these countries’ literatures in Latin America. The timespan covered goes from 1977 -when Prenz and Lara first met- to more recent times. More specifically, the article focuses on the works published with KOV, Vršac’s publishing house, on the different stages of the journal Trilce -directed by Omar Lara- and the establishment of LAR (Reunited American Literature) publishing house.