Chronicles, Fictions, Non-Fiction Novels: The Power and Powerlessness of Literature against the Illegal Drug Trade

Florence Olivier teaches comparative literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 University. She is a Latin American Literature specialist and a translator. She is the author of Carlos Fuentes o la imaginación del otro, Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana Jalapa, Mexico (2007)/Carlos Fuentes ou l’imagination de l’autre, Aden, Londres, (2009) and of Poesía + novela = poesía. La apuesta de Roberto Bolaño, Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana (2015)/Sous le roman, la poésie. Le défi de Roberto Bolaño, Hermann (2016). She has published a hundred critical articles or chapters in academic and cultural reviews or collective books in France, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the editor of América, a Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle’s review, and, among other collective volumes, of Violence d’Etat, Paroles libératrices (2006); Exils, Migrations, Création. Vol. 4 (2008), both at Editions Indigo, Paris, and Cultures et conflits/cultures en conflit, Michel Houdiard, 2009; La littérature latino-américaine au seuil du XXIe siècle. Un parnasse éclaté (with Françoise Moulin-Civil and Teresa Orecchia-Havas), Aden, Londres, 2012; Du roman noir aux fictions de l’impunité, Indigo, Paris, 2014; Les lettres de relation de Carlos Fuentes, Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2018. Among her translations are the literary works of Diamela Eltit, José Revueltas, Nellie Campobello, Guillermo Samperio, Alain-Paul Mallard, Margo Glantz, Rogelio Guedea, and Pablo Montoya.