Larry Rohter
American journalist Larry Rohter (b. 1950) is a culture reporter for The New York Times. Previously, he was the New York daily’s South American bureau chief (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) from 1999 to 2007, and its Caribbean and Latin American correspondent from 1994 to 1999. He is the author of Brazil on the Rise.
Updated: 9 December 2010
With the help of independent publishing houses and with the input from the Old World’s cultural institutes and agencies, European literature is finally making inroads in the United States, a country which traditionally shies away from books in translation.