Currently, foreign readers are getting to know poets and authors living within and outside the country like never before. For that reason, Venezuelan literature is gaining visibility it is flowing throughout the world. This means that, for the first time, the country has a notable number of writers and intellectuals beyond its borders. This has been the largest migrant crisis in Latin American history. The publication of the anthology Escribir afuera crystallises a phenomenon that has emerged in recent years, in which migration and exile have taken more than six million people out of Venezuela due to the critical social, political, and economic situation that has affected the country in the twenty-first century. These stories of migrations, by Silda Cordolini, Raquel Rivas Rojas, Alberto Barrera Tyszka, and Lena Yau, are just a small sample of the anthology Escribir afuera: Cuentos de intemperies y querencias, compiled and edited by Raquel Rivas Rojas, Katie Brown, and Liliana Lara, which was published in 2021, thanks to the enthusiastic efforts of these three writers and the support of David Alejandro MalavГ©, at the head of KГЎlathos, a Venezuelan publisher based in Spain. An immigrant in Spain, a вЂњgreaser and oddball,вЂќ tries to trace Caracas over Madrid. Three Venezuelan siblings, each living in a different country, must gather in Germany to scatter their fatherвЂ™s ashes.

Another visits the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul and, upon seeing the objects that fill the lives of characters from an Orhan Pamuk novel, revisits the memories of the numerous objects she has left behind, which populated the many transitions in her own life.

A woman travels to France in search of family roots in a small town, which would allow her to get a foreign passport to escape from Venezuela.

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