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= Carlos Yushimito del Valle = Carlos Yushimito del Valle is a Japanese writer from Lima, Peru.

Biography
Carlos Yushimito del Valle was born in Milaflores, Peru, on November 4, 1977. Very little is known about his early life, as he is a very private individual, according to many secondary resources. The information that is currently available is from his introduction to the United States in 2008, when he moved there. In 2004 he published his first collection of short stories, entitled “El Mago” (“The Magician”). His second book was published in 2006, entitled “Las Islas” (“The Islands”). Since that time, his stories has made their way into many anthologies in Peru and nine other countries. He has an affinity toward 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature, along with “culture, cosmopolitan discourses, migration[,] and transnational narratives,” according to his biography on the University of California, Riverside, webpage. His work is so widely read that it has been partially published in English, French, Italian, and Portuguese. He is also interested in the Japanese diaspora to Latin America (being of Japanese descent himself), creative writing, and the “cultural history of reading.”

Education
In regards to Yushimito’s education, he studied at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (National University of San Marcos) until 2002. It is said to be the “most important and respected” university in Peru and is among the “top two universities in the country.” He moved to the United States in 2008 to study at Villanova University for a MA in Hispanic Studies, which he received in 2010. He received a MA from Brown University in 2012 and obtained his PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown again in 2016.

Teaching
In addition to being an author and poet, del Valle has held various academic and teaching positions. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, campus.

Place
Carlos Yushimito del Valle uses Brazil as his backdrop to let his imagination run wild. Stories set in the favelas and sertões bring to life his thoughts and ideas of a poor and forlorn Brazil.

Influences
When asked who his major influences were in his writing and about the writers who have influenced his work, he would respond, “As Juan José Saer used to say, admiration is always an act of responsibility, and to admire, one must first be deserving of the authors one claims to admire.” He goes on to say, “I prefer that other people see those reflections, deformed of course, in the things I write. Work, also, is too big of a word for what I have. With some effort, perhaps I will be able to say that I have that in about thirty years.” Some of his major influences include; Felisberto Hernández, José Watanabe, Juan Emar, Juan Rulfo, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Martín Adán, Valle-Inclán, Vargas Llosa, Gomez de la Serna, Juan José Saer, Herrera y Reissig, Roberto Arlt, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicanor Parra, Fogwill, Onetti, Cervantes, Calderón, Quevedo. He also mentions that if he was requested who his influences are from Brazil and Portugal, he would name Clarice Lispector, Guimaraes Rosa, Machado de Assis, Rubem Fonseca, Lobo Antunes, Fernando Pessoa. “If you ask me about the rest of the world, I would never finish.

Many of his stores are developed and brought to life in favelas (a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum) and sertões (Portugese backland). The inspiration for his stories is Brazil, although he has never been there.

Awards and honors
He received the distinction by Granta, a British literary magazine, of being one of the twenty-two best writers in the Spanish language under 35 years old. He was in the company of writers such as Santiago Roncagliolo, Andres Neuman, and Alejandro Zambra. His works have also gained popularity in countries like Chile, the United States, Columbia, and Cuba, among others. He has made appearances at the Quito Book Fair; Santiago de Chile; La Paz; Guadalajara; Miami; and Bogotá, Columbia International Book Fairs; along with the First International Festival of Young Writers in La Habana, Cuba. He has also visited many universities in the United States. including New York University, University of California–Los Angeles, Tulane University, Brandeis University, San Jose State University, Georgetown University, Cornell University, and the University of California–Berkeley.

In 2011, his short stories collection, Lecciones para un niño que llega tarde (Lessons for a Child Who Arrived Late) was published in Barcelona, Spain, by Duomo Ediciones. His most recent works are Los bosques tienen sus propias puertas (Forests Have Their Own Doors) (Demipage, Madrid: 2014), Marginalia (Odradek, Lima: 2015), and Rizoma (Rhizome) (Perra Gráfica, La Paz: 2015).

In 2008 he was selected by Casa de las Américas and the Centro Onelio Cardoso in Cuba as one of the the most promising young Latin American fiction writers.

Currently
Carlos Yushimito is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He has completed his dissertation entitled Ficciones cosmopolitas: Identidad y desplazamiento en la Geotextualidad Latinoamericana del siglo XXI. This book is said to examine “transnational contemporary imagination through notions of hospitality, ethics of mediation, and discrepant cosmopolitanisms.” It is a study of some Latin American novelists who came to the United States in the last 20 years. Set for release in Oakland, California, in 2017 is his most recent work, Lecciones para un niño que llega tarde (Lessons for a Boy Who Arrived Late), which has been translated into English.

Another current project is a book about an entomologist that is chasing a butterfly that was thought to be extinct in the Peruvian jungle. del Valle mentions in a recent interview that he continues to write short stories to reduce the frustration that his novel writing is causing. These stories are “cruel and twisted,” blaming David Lynch and Kobo Abe.

It has been said by Elizabeth K. Bryer, a writer and translator from Australia, that, “Yushimito’s beautiful sentences are the greatest pleasure to translate.” She also states that his writing style is from an “archaic” world, namely, “zinzolin,” an old literary color that usually is used to speak of vestments, pallet, a crude bed—“and especially the parlance of apothecaries: ampoules, vials, alembics.” It is noted that the last reference is from “Middle English” from the 14th century Old French, derived from Old Spanish, Arabic, Persian, Greek, and Semitic origins. A true mix of ideas from East and West.

Books

 * El Mago. The Magician (Lima: Sarita Cartonera, 2004; La Paz, Bolivia: Yerba Mala Cartonera, 2005)
 * Las islas. Islands (Lima, [sic], 2006) ISBN 978-9972-2841-0-6
 * Madureira sabe. Madureira Knows (Lima: Underwood Collection, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, 2007)
 * Equis. X (Riobamba, Ecuador: Matapalo Cartonera, 2009)
 * Cuentos: Perú–Ecuador 1998–2008. Short Stories: Peru–Ecuador 1998–2008. Anthology. Selection and preface by Gabriela Falconi and Carlos Yushimito (Lima: [sic] and Embassy of Ecuador in Peru, 2009) ISBN 978-612-45492-2-9
 * Lecciones para un niño que llega tarde. Lessons for a Child Who Arrived Late (Barcelona: Duomo ediciones, 2011) ISBN 978-84-92723-91-1
 * Los bosques tienen sus propias puertas. Forests Have Their Own Doors (Madrid: Demipage, 2014; Lima: Peisa, 2013)
 * Marginalia. Breve repertorio de pensamientos prematuros sobre el arte poco notable de leer al revés. Marginalia. Brief Repertoire of Premature Thoughts About the Unremarkable Art of Reading Upside Down (Lima: Odradek, 2015)
 * Rizoma. Rhizome (La Paz: Perra Gráfica Taller, 2015)

Anthologies

 * Enésima novísima. Nueva narrativa nacional (Lima: Ginebra Magnolia, No. 4-5, 2005)
 * Nuevos lances, otros fuegos. Narradores de los últimos años (Lima: Ed. Recreo and San Marcos, 2007. Selection and introduction by Miguel Ildefonso)
 * Selección peruana 1990–2007 (Lima: Editorial Estruendomudo, 2007)
 * Disidentes. Muestra de la nueva narrativa peruana (Lima: Revuelta Editores, 2007. Selection and Introduction by Gabriel Ruiz-Ortega)
 * El futuro no es nuestro. Narradores de América Latina nacidos entre 1970 y 1980 (electronic version). (Bogotá: Pie de Página 2008. Selection and Introduction by Diego Trelles Paz)
 * Hispanophonies/Hispanofonías (Paris: Retors, No. 11, 2010. Selection and Introduction by Ivan Salinas and Mariana Martinez Salgado. Translated into French by Laure Gauze)
 * Nuevas rutas. Jóvenes escritores latinoamericanos (Guatemala: Editorial Piedrasanta. Coedición Latinoamericana, 2010)
 * Los mejores narradores jóvenes en Español (Barcelona: Granta Nº11, October 2010)
 * The Best Young Spanish Language Novelists (London: Granta Nº113, November 2010)
 * Os melhores jovens escritores em Espanhol (Brasil: Granta Nº7, Alfaguara, June 2011)
 * Colección Reunida: 2007–2008 (Lima: Colección Underwood, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012)
 * 17 Fantásticos cuentos peruanos. Antología Vol. 2 (Lima: Casa tomada, 2012. Compilated and prologued by Carlos Sotomayor and Gabriel Rimachi)
 * La Ciudad Contada. Buenos Aires en la mirada de la nueva narrativa hispanoamericana (Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires Ciudad, 2012. Compilated and prologued by Maximiliano Tomas)
 * The Asian American Literary Review (AALR) (Washington DC: United States, 2012. Spring, Vol 3, Issue 1. Translated into English by Sofi Hall; edited by Valerie Miles)
 * Disidentes 2. Muestra de la nueva narrativa peruana (Lima: Altazor Editores, 2012. Selection and Introduction by Gabriel Ruiz-Ortega)